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dirtball

noun

dirtball is spelled D-I-R-T-B-A-L-L: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory noun, dirtball means “A dirty or sleazy person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dirtball is dirtballs.

How many letters and syllables are in dirtball?

Letters8: D-I-R-T-B-A-L-L
In writingabout once in every 37 million words; the 187,122nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is dirtball?

Dirtball appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce dirtball?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-dirtball.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dirtball

  • dirtballs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dirtball mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryslangA dirty or sleazy person.

  2. 2

    Synonym of dorodango: a ball of dirt, especially one that is polished in a popular outdoor activity done by Japanese schoolchildren.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does dirtball come from?

From dirt + ball.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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