freeze, frieze

Freeze or freeze means to harden in the cold, as water becoming ice--
It will take at least an hour for the dessert to freeze. We should start making it now.
You can freeze a bottle of water and put it in your lunchbox.
If it stays cold, the lake may freeze.
Put some salt on the walk so it won't freeze.

Frieze or frieze ( rhymes with freeze ) means a decorative band on a wall, usually with a design in low relief ( with a shape, like a sculpture, but a part of the wall )--
The post office is decorated with a frieze of people delivering mail all over the world.
There is frieze on the outside of the building with scenes from American history.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"When it gets cold enough to freeze the water from the rain spouts, the frieze at the top of the building is covered with icicles."

Note--"frieze" is also the name of a kind of heavy wool cloth--
She had a new winter coat of blue frieze.
Note # 2--"freezing" means in the act of becoming solid--
The pond is freezing; you can see the bits of ice floating on it.
"Freezing" is also used to mean very cold, as the weather--
Wear a hat! It's freezing outside!
Not to be confused with "friezing", meaning a carved or painted decoration on the outside of a ship--
The ship's friezing had a picture of lovely mermaids.