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Is frolic a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word frolic is a Scrabble US word. The word frolic is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is frolic a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word frolic is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Yes. The word frolic is a Words With Friends word. The word frolic is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

FROLIC,

5-letter words (2 found)

FOLIC,LORIC,

4-letter words (17 found)

CIRL,COIF,COIL,COIR,CORF,FICO,FILO,FLIC,FLIR,FLOC,FLOR,FOCI,FOIL,LOCI,LOIR,ROIL,ROLF,

3-letter words (12 found)

COL,COR,FIL,FIR,FOR,FRO,LOR,OIL,ORC,ORF,RIF,ROC,

2-letter words (7 found)

IF,IO,LI,LO,OF,OI,OR,

You can make 39 words from frolic according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of frolic

frolic

Alternative forms

  • frolick

Etymology

From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).

The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɒlɪk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɑlɪk/
  • Rhymes: -ɒlɪk
  • Hyphenation: frol‧ic

Adjective

frolic (comparative more frolic, superlative most frolic)

  1. (now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief. [from 1530s]
  2. (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

Verb

frolic (third-person singular simple present frolics, present participle frolicking, simple past and past participle frolicked)

  1. (intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]
  2. (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.

Derived terms

  • rollick

Translations

Noun

frolic (plural frolics)

  1. Gaiety; merriment. [from 1610s]
    • 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:
      By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.
  2. A playful antic.
  3. (obsolete, chiefly US) A social gathering.

Derived terms

  • milling frolic
  • turtle frolic

Translations

See also

  • cavort

Related terms

  • frolicsome

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “frolic”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Source: wiktionary.org