frinstance

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A form of for instance — As an example.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adverbfrinstance (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of for instance.

    Great discoveries sometimes are made by accident. Frinstance, yesterday while idly punching the keys on our 17-jewel typewriter trying to think up something to think about, we found we could make a jim dandy Q simply by making a cap O and then placing a comma in the extreme southern portion of it.

    1918 February 22, The Macon Telegraph, Macon, GA, page 6, column 1
nounfrinstance (plural frinstances)

plural frinstances

  1. pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of for instance.
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frinstance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frinstance.

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