fray

1. 1.

   a noisy fight

   Synonymsaffraydisturbanceruffle

   Broaderfight

Other forms of fray

plural

frays·

past tense

frayed·

present participle

fraying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fray

What does fray mean?

fray means "wear away by rubbing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fray?

fray has 1 syllable: fray. In IPA it is /ˈfɹeɪ/.

What is another word for fray?

Close synonyms include frazzle, rub, fret, chafe, scratch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fray a common word?

fray is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fray?

2 words rhyme with fray. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.