fourball
noun
fourball is a noun meaning “A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-R-B-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fourball is fourballs.
What does fourball mean?
noun
- 1
A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fourball
- fourballs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fourball?
Fourball appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Where does fourball come from?
From four + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).