frill

Other forms of frill

plural

frills·

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 frill

What does frill mean?

frill means "(paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frill?

frill has 1 syllable: frill. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɪl/.

What is another word for frill?

Close synonyms include ruff, flounce, ruffle, furbelow, folderal. 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 frill a common word?

frill is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.