frosh
/ˈfɹɔʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A frog.
noun
A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
Etymology
From Middle English frossh, frosch, from Old English frosc, from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Cognate with West Frisian froask (“frog”), Dutch vors (“frog”), German Frosch (“frog”), Norwegian frosk (“frog”), Icelandic froskur (“frog”). Doublet of frosk; more at frog.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹɔʃ/
- British English: /ˈfɹɒʃ/