I like pea pods in my stir fry.
Source: tatoeba (32484)
Fry
/fɹaɪ/
Synonyms for "fry" (169 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (84)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: alevin, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat.
- Sentence evidence is available for fry, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from moby, derived_reverse, opengloss, wordnet, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "fry".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "fry"
Keep "fry" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "fry" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "fry", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "fry" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
More specific
13 entriesburnoutcatfish fryclassic frycurly frydeep-frygoldfish frypan-frypar-fryingsalmon frystir-frystraight frytrout frywaffle fry
Collocations
12 entriesInflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
119 translations across 87 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- skuq verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ταγηνίζω verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- τηγανίζω verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Arabic
1 entries- قَلَى verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Armenian
1 entries- տապակել verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Aromanian
1 entries- frigu verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Assamese
2 entries- ভজা verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- ভাজা verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qovurmaq verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- qızartmaq verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Bangi
1 entries- kanga verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Basque
1 entries- frijitu verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Belarusian
1 entries- сма́жыць verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Biatah Bidayuh
1 entries- gureng verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пържа verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Burmese
1 entries- ကြော် verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Catalan
1 entries- fregir verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- سوور کردنەوە verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 炒 verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- 煎 verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 炒 verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- 煎 verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Cornish
1 entries- fria verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Czech
2 entries- smažit verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- usmažit verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Dalmatian
1 entries- fregur verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Danish
2 entries- brase verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- stege verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Dongxiang
1 entries- khuru verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Dutch
2 entries- bakken verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- braden verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Esperanto
1 entries- friti verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Estonian
1 entries- praadima verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Finnish
2 entries- käristää verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- paistaa verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
French
1 entries- faire frire verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Galician
3 entries- estrelar verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- fritir verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- frixir verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
German
1 entries- braten verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Greek
1 entries- τηγανίζω verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Hebrew
1 entries- טיגן \ טִגֵּן verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Hindi
1 entries- तलना verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Hungarian
1 entries- süt verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Irish
1 entries- frioch verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Italian
1 entries- friggere verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Japanese
3 entries- (油で)揚げる verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- 炒る verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- 煎る verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Kazakh
1 entries- қуыру verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Khmer
2 entries- ឆា verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- ជៀន verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Korean
1 entries- 튀기다 verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Lao
2 entries- ຂົ້ວ verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- ຈຶນ verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Latgalian
1 entries- cept verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Latin
1 entries- frīgō verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Latvian
1 entries- cept verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Lingala
1 entries- kalinga verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kepti verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- pjac verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Lutuv
1 entries- kie verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Macedonian
1 entries- пржи verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Malay
1 entries- goreng verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Malayalam
1 entries- വറുക്കുക verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Middle English
1 entries- fryen verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Mongolian
2 entries- хуурах verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- шарах verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Māori
1 entries- parai verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Norman
2 entries- fricachi verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- fricachier verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- biraştin verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- qelandin verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Norwegian
1 entries- steke verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Occitan
1 entries- fregir verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Persian
1 entries- ویجیدن verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Polish
2 entries- smażyć verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- usmażyć verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Portuguese
1 entries- fritar verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Romanian
2 entries- frige verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- prăji verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Russian
2 entries- жа́рить verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- поджа́рить verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Sanskrit
1 entries- भृज्जति verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Sardinian
1 entries- fríere verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- praidhig verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pȑžiti verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- пр̏жити verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Shuswap
1 entries- p’íxem verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Slovak
1 entries- smažiť verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Spanish
1 entries- freír verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Swahili
1 entries- kaanga verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Swedish
1 entries- steka verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠜꠣꠎꠣ verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Tamil
1 entries- வறு verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Tedim Chin
1 entries- kang verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Telugu
1 entries- వేపు verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Tetum
1 entries- sona verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Thai
1 entries- ทอด verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Turkish
1 entries- kızartmak verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Ukrainian
2 entries- підсма́жити verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- сма́жити verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Upper Sorbian
4 entries- pjec verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- popjec verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- spjec verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- wopjec verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Urdu
1 entries- تلنا verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Venetan
4 entries- frìxar verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- frìxer verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- frìxere verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- frìzar verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chiên verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
- rán verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Volapük
1 entries- loetön verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Welsh
1 entries- ffrio verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּרעגלען verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Zou
1 entries- keng verb (to cook (something) in hot fat or oil)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
People will fry to a crisp in the sun today.
Source: tatoeba (242499)
Fry an egg for me.
Source: tatoeba (325244)
Heat sesame oil in the pan on a medium flame, add the chicken meat, the garlic and fry, when the colour changes pour in the Chinese soup, add the Chinese cabbage and boil.
Source: tatoeba (327888)
Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "fry"?
Closest matches include alevin, bake, barbecue, baste, be in heat.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "fry"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.