frisian

Other forms of frisian

plural

frisians·

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 frisian

What does frisian mean?

frisian means "a native or inhabitant of Friesland or Frisia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frisian?

frisian has 3 syllables and divides as fri-si-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is frisian a common word?

frisian 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.