floorball
noun
floorball is a noun meaning “An indoor ball game played with a stick like hockey” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-O-R-B-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does floorball mean?
noun
- 1
An indoor ball game played with a stick like hockey.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is floorball?
Floorball appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).
Floorball in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense hockey-like ball game:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | floorball, unihockey |
| German | Unihockey |
| Portuguese | floorball |
| Spanish | floorball |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does floorball come from?
From floor + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).