frore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air."
- "For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings."
- "Till we conceive their heavens hoar, Those lights they raise but sparkles frore,"
- "Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore."
- "My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore."
- "And down below all fretted and frore, Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English frore, froare, yfrore, froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frorn and frozen.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: frore, froren, *froʀan, *fruzanaz, *freusaną
Usage
Inflected Forms
more frore (comparative)
most frore (superlative)