frisking

Questions about frisking

What does frisking mean?

frisking means "the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs".

How many syllables are in frisking?

frisking has 2 syllables and divides as fri-sking 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.

What is another word for frisking?

Close synonyms include frisk. 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 frisking a common word?

frisking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.