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frisbee

/ˈfɹɪzbi/noun, verb

frisbee is a noun meaning “Alternative form of Frisbee (an object)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-I-S-B-E-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frisbee is frisbees.

What does frisbee mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of Frisbee (an object)

  2. 2

    Alternative form of Frisbee (a sport)

noun

as Frisbee
  1. 1

    A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.

  2. 2

    A frisbee, a disk-shaped gliding toy of any brand.

  3. 3

    frisbee: the sport involving Frisbees.

verb

as Frisbee
  1. 1

    To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.

    The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar.

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative form of Frisbee.

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

How do you pronounce frisbee?

  • US /ˈfɹɪzbi/

Frisbee has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Frisbee.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of frisbee

  • frisbees plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • frisbeeing participle, present
  • frisbeed participle, past

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

How common is frisbee?

Frisbee appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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).

Frisbee in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishfrisbi (Translations), frisbee, disco volador (toy)
Frenchfrisbee (toy)
GermanFrisbee, Wurfscheibe, Frisbeescheibe (toy)
Portuguesefrisbee, disco (toy)

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 frisbee come from?

By genericization from the trademark Frisbee.

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