fraught
/fɹoːt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "fraught money"
- "VVell, goe / And bid the Merchants and my men diſpatch / And come aſhore, and ſee the fraught discharg'd."
- "And novv behold after my vvinters toyle, / My paynefull voyage on the boyſtrous ſea, / Of vvarres deuouring gulphes and ſteely rocks, / I bring my fraught vnto the vviſhed port / My Summers hope, my trauels ſvveet reward: […]"
- "The fraught of this Ship being concluded to be Cedar, by the diligence of the Maſter, and Captaine Smith, ſhe vvas quickly reladed: […]"
- "The manse […] is reached […] by a wide, straight path, so rough that to carry a fraught of water to the manse without spilling was to be superlatively good at one thing."
- "Thoſe morning haunts are vvhere they ſhould be at home, not ſleeping, or concocting the ſurfets of an irregular Feaſt, but up and ſtirring, […] in Summer as oft vvith the Bird that firſt rouſes, or not much tardier, to reade good Authors, or cauſe them to be read, till the Attention be vveary, or Memory have its full fraught: […]"
Etymology
From Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by water); charge for such transport; facilities for such transport; cargo or passengers of a ship; ballast of a ship; goods in general; (figurative) burden; charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“cargo, freight; charge for transport of goods”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz, from *fra- (intensifying prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“acquisition; possessions, property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). Doublet of freight. Cognates * Danish fragt * Old English ǣht (“livestock; property; possession; power”) * Old High German frēht (“earnings”) (modern German fracht) * Swedish frakt
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *per-, fraught, vracht, *fraihtiz, *aihtiz, *h₂eyḱ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹoːt/
- British English: /fɹɔːt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
fraughts (plural)
fraughts (present, singular)
fraughting (participle, present)
fraughted (participle, past)
fraughted (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
fraughted (first person, past)
fraughtest (archaic, present)
fraughted (past, second person)
fraughtedst (archaic, past)
fraughteth (archaic, present)
Derived Forms
befraught
disfraught
enfraught
fatefraught
fraughtage
fraughtness
unfraught
fraughting
overfraught
refraught