frog

1. 1.

   hunt frogs for food

   Broadercapture

Other forms of frog

plural

frogs·

past tense or participle

frogged

present participle

frogging

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 frog

What does frog mean?

frog means "any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frog?

frog has 1 syllable: frog. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɑɡ/.

What is another word for frog?

Close synonyms include toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian, salientian. 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 frog a common word?

frog is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.