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say it: FRIG-uht
frigate is a noun meaning "a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries". It is pronounced /ˈfɹɪɡət/ — FRIG-uht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frigate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.