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— English words —

• fret v. (Transitive, obsolete or poetic) Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
• fret v. (Transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
• fret v. (Transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
• fret v. (Transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
• fret v. (Transitive, intransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
• fret v. (Transitive, intransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions…
• fret v. (Intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
• fret v. (Intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
• fret v. (Intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
• fret v. (Intransitive, brewing, oenology) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion…
• fret n. Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
• fret n. Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
• fret n. Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
• fret n. (Mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate…
• fret n. An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
• fret n. (Heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
• fret v. (Transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture)…
• fret v. (Transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
• fret v. (Transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
• fret n. (Obsolete or dialectal) A ferrule, a ring.
• fret n. (Music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument…
• fret v. To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
• fret v. (Transitive, music) Musical senses.
• fret n. A channel, a strait; a fretum.
• fret n. (Rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
• fret n. (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
• FRET n. (Physics) Förster resonance energy transfer.
• FRET n. (Physics) fluorescence resonance energy transfer, which is a type of the Förster phenomenon where one…

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Friulian
  • frêt adj. Cold.
• Gothic
  • fret rom. Romanization of 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐍄.
• Middle english
  • fret n. Eating up; wearing away.
  • fret n. A decoration or adornment.
  • fret n. A netted headcovering.
  • fret n. (Heraldry) A thin saltire.
  • fret n. (Rare) A tie or loop.
  • fret n. (Rare) A fee (usually paid to secure peace).
  • fret v. Alternative form of freten (“to decorate”).
• Old french
  • fret n. Charge (demand of payment in exchange for goods or services).
  • fret v. Past participle of fraindre.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• fret n. (Muziekinstrument): fret.
• fret w. (Muziekinstrument): een snaar tegen een fret drukken.

— English words, defined in French —

• fret n. (Héraldique) Frette.
• fret n. (Musique) Frette.
• fret v. (Désuet) (Poétique) Dévorer, consumer.
• fret v. Consumer, user.
• fret v. User, irriter.
• fret v. S’inquiéter.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• fret v. Preocuparse, inquietarse, intranquilizarse.
• fret s. Agitación.
• fret s. Traste.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• fret s. (Musica) tasto, in chitarra e altri cordofoni.
• fret s. (Araldica) frette.

— In Dutch —

• fret n. (Roofdieren) bepaald soort klein marterachtig zoogdier, Mustela…
• fret w. Enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van fretten#gebiedende wijs van fretten.
• fret n. (Gereedschap) dunne boor met schroefdraad.
• fret n. (Muziek) metalen richel op de hals van een snaarinstrument…

— In French —

• fret n.m. (Transport) Prix du transport par bateau (ou par train…
• fret n.m. (Par extension) Louage d’un bâtiment (ou d’un train, d’un…
• fret n.m. Cargaison, chargement d’un navire de commerce, d’un train…
• fret adj.m. (Désuet) Variante de froid.

188 English words from 39 English definitions

accumulate across adornment after agitate agitated Agitation Alternative and angry animals anxious any architecture at␣sea away bind brewing cause chafe chafed channel Charge Cold coming commotion complaint conditions consisting consisting␣of consume containing conversion create created cut cut␣through decorate decoration demand describing devour dialectal disturb disturbance eat eat␣away Eating Eating␣up energy energy␣transfer especially exchange expressions fee fermentation ferrule fluid fluorescence fog for form fray fret fretsaw fretum fretwork from gnaw goods guitar have headcovering Heraldry Herpes horizontal impatience in␣exchange in␣exchange␣for inland instrument interlaced interwoven intransitive irritate irritated irritation lines loop make marked mascle metal mind Mining mist music Musical neck netted Northumbria obsolete occurring oenology of␣a often one on␣the on␣the␣surface ores originally ornament ornamental other out paid participle passage Past Past␣participle pattern payment peace peevish phenomenon Physics pieces plastic plural poetic pustular rankle Rare relief repeated resonance resonance␣energy ring ripple rippling riverbanks Romanization rough saltire sea secondary secondary␣fermentation secure senses services sides skin some squander stones strait string string␣instrument surface temper tetter the them thin through tie transfer Transitive type usually utter variegate various vertical vexed violent waste water wearing wearing␣away when where which with wood worn worn␣away worry

18 English words from 21 foreign definitions

bateau boor commerce consumer een extension fret fretten Louage met Musique Mustela par tasto train transport user van

2 foreign words from 39 English definitions

Förster freten

50 foreign words from 21 foreign definitions

Agitación altri Araldica bâtiment bepaald Cargaison chargement chitarra cordofoni Désuet Dévorer drukken dunne Enkelvoud frette froid gebiedende gebiedende␣wijs Gereedschap hals Héraldique inquietarse inquiéter intranquilizarse irriter klein marterachtig metalen Musica Muziek Muziekinstrument navire navire␣de␣commerce Par␣extension Poétique Preocuparse Prix richel Roofdieren schroefdraad snaar snaarinstrument soort tegen tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd Traste Variante wijs zoogdier

50 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

freta frets frett Frett Fretz fretts Fretts fretty fretum fretful Fréthun fretman fretmen fretsaw fret␣saw fretted fretten fretter Fretzes fretfull fretless fretsawn fretsaws fret␣saws fretsome fretters frettest fretteth fretting Fretwell fretwork fretboard fretfully Fretherne fretsawed frettings fretworks fretboards fretsawing fret-sawyer frettiness frettingly fretworked fretfulness fret-sawyers fretfulnesses fret␣the␣gizzard fretted␣dulcimer fretted␣dulcimers Fretherne␣with␣Saul

43 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

affrets offreth refrets smFRETs unfrets Alfreton coffrets pomfrets sea␣frets chamfrets gaufrette offretite refretted unfretful unfretted gaufrettes refretting transfrete unfretting affrettando autofretted pock-fretten pomfret␣cake transfreted vine-fretter autofrettage autofretting interfretted pomfret␣cakes rate␣of␣return transfreting vine-fretters rates␣of␣return white␣pomfrets silver␣pomfrets transfretation kickoff␣returner silvery␣pomfrets transfretations Atlantic␣pomfrets deed␣of␣retirement kickoff␣returners deeds␣of␣retirement

14 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

affret refret smFRET unfret coffret pomfret Pomfret sea␣fret chamfret overfret white␣pomfret silver␣pomfret silvery␣pomfret Atlantic␣pomfret

2 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ret Ret.

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

erf ter TER ter- terf TERF

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

reft terf TERF tref

40 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

after after- aftre efrit efter fetor Foret forte Forte forté frate freat freet Freet freit freta frets frett Frett Fretz frote Kreft ofter rafte refit refts terfs TERFs terfy TERFy teruf trafe trefa treff Tre-Fo trefs Trefz treif treyf trife

33 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

eft EFT erf ert ERT ETF ETR fer FER f***er fet FET FTE FTR ref Ref REF Ref. ret Ret. RFE RFT RTÉ Rte. RTF tef ter TER ter- TFE TFR tRF TRF

26 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

aret Bret dret feet flet fPET frat Fred free Free -free frem fren fren' Freo freq freq. Frew frex Frey frit frot fuet pret. tret -uret

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

fet FET ret Ret.

7 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Foret freat freet Freet freit frett Frett

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