Skip to main content
PlainSpell

fulham

obsolete

fulham is a noun meaning “Alternative form of fullam (“loaded die”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-H-A-M, and it appears 2.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Fulham, the name). The plural of fulham is fulhams.

What does fulham mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKarchaicslangAlternative form of fullam (“loaded die”).

  2. 2

    UKarchaiccolloquialAlternative form of fullam (“sham”).

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

How do you pronounce fulham?

  • Australia

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

How common is fulham?

Fulham appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 17,813th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Fulham, the name.

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

Where does fulham come from?

So called because loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, originally in Middlesex, England.

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