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Frizz

Definition: Frizz

Frizz

Verb

1. Curl tightly, of hair.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "frizz" was first used: 1620. (references)


Synonyms: Frizz

Synonyms: crape (v), crimp (v), frizzle (v), kink (v), kink up (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Frizz

"Frizz" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.25% of the time. "Frizz" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)81.25%1397,576
Lexical Verb (base form)12.5%2245,945
Lexical Verb (infinitive)6.25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Frizz

Expression using "frizz": frizz up. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "frizz": frizz-beating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Frizz

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

frizz ease

86

frizz

65

ease frieda frizz john

11

anti frizz

10

zero frizz

10

frizz hair

9

frizz control

8

ease frizz relax

6

frizz jheri redding

4

eaze frizz

4

ease frizz hair serum

4

fish frizz

3

ease frizz product

3

ease frizz hair product

3

anti frizz hair product

2

anti dryer frizz ion ionic straight straightening

2

anti frizz hair

2

frizz free

2

frizz hair serum

2

frizz hair product wavy

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Frizz

Language Translations for "frizz"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

flokë kaçurrela (friz), dredh (cast, convulse, curl, friz, roll, shake, spin, twist, vibrate, wriggle), bëj kaçurrela (curl, friz). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تجعد (corrugate, crease, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, furrow, pucker, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, ruffle, rumple). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

къдрица (curl, friz, frizzle, kiss-me-quick, lock, ringlet), пръскам (bespatter, scatter, shed, shoot, spatter, spit, splash, sprinkle, squirt, throw, throw about). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

卷曲 (Crimp, Crinkled, Crinkling, Curled, Curling, Curly, Frizzed, Frizzes, Frizzing, frizzy). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nakadeřit (curl, friz, frizzle). (various references)

   

French

  

faire friser, se frisotter. (various references)

   

German

  

kräuseln (Crimp, dimple, frill, gather, gather in folds, knit, make frizzy, pucker, ruffle, screw up, stir, to dimple, to frill, wrinkle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατσαρώνω (curl, frizzle, make curly), βόστρυχοσ (curl, tress), ψήνω (bake, cook, frizzle, roast, season, torrefy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

göndörség (crispness, friz), bodorít (to frizzle). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sfriggere, riccio (bur, curl, curlicue, curly, hedgehog). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

izzfray

   

Portuguese

  

frisar (crape, Crimp, crisp, curl, frizzle, goffer), frisado (crimpy, friz, frizzle, frizzly, fuzzy, Terry), ondular (coif, corrugate, Crimp, Crinkle, curl, dimple, flaunt, poise, poppy, ripple, splatter, undulate, wave), ondulação (corrugation, curl, curling, dimple, fold, friz, gurgitation, Popple, ripple, undulation, wave, wrinkle), encaracolar (crisp, curl, frizzle), encaracolado (annulate, curly, friz, frizzed, frizzly), cabelo ondulado. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ridge, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кудри (curles, friz), завивать (coif, curl, frounce). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kovrdža (curl, friz, kink), cvrčati (chirp, chirr, chirrup, sizzle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rizar (Crimp, dimple, frill, frizzle, keck, ripple). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

krusa sig (ripple), krusa (Crimp, Crinkle, crisp, curl, frizzle, frounce, ripple, stand on ceremony), krulligt hår (friz, frizzle), krulla sig, krulla (crisp, frizzle), burrig, burr (brrh). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, crisp, curl, curl up, frizzle, huddle up, meander, snuggle, squirm, sweep, tuck, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), cızırdayarak kızarmak (frizzle), bukle olmak, bukle (coil, corkscrew curls, curl, hank, lock, Lovelock, pouf, pouffe, puff, ringlet). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кучерявитися, кучері (kink), завивати (becurl, crisp, curl, frizzle, ululate, wail, wave). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Frizz

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

friser. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Frizz

Derivations

Words beginning with "frizz": frizzed, frizzer, frizzers, frizzes, frizzier, frizziest, frizzily, frizziness, frizzinesses, frizzing, frizzle, frizzled, frizzler, frizzlers, frizzles, frizzlier, frizzliest, frizzling, frizzly, frizzy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Frizz" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feruzzi, Firoz, firz, fizzo, fraz, freiz, frez, frezze, friez, Frinza, fris, Friso, friss, Fritzsch, friza, frizi, frizt, Frizzo, Fuiza. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Frizz

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-i-r-z-z"

-1 letter: fizz, friz.

-2 letters: fir, fiz, rif.

-3 letters: if.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-r-z-z"
 

+1 letter: fizzer, frizzy.

 

+2 letters: fizzers, fizzier, frizzed, frizzer, frizzes, frizzle, frizzly, fuzzier.

 

+3 letters: frizzers, frizzier, frizzily, frizzing, frizzled, frizzler, frizzles.

 

+4 letters: frazzling, frizziest, frizzlers, frizzlier, frizzling.

 

+5 letters: frizziness, frizzliest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Frizz


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 72 69 7A 7A

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-.    ..    --..    --..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110010 01101001 01111010 01111010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#105 &#122 &#122

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 0069 007A 007A

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4084759292

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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