As nouns the difference between stops and fricative
is that
stops is plural of lang=en while
fricative is any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English /f/ and /s/ are fricatives.
As a verb stops
is third-person singular of stop.
As an adjective fricative is
produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.