Furby
noun
Furby is a noun meaning “A talking electronic toy in the form of a fluffy animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-R-B-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Furby is Furbies or Furbys.
What does Furby mean?
noun
- 1
A talking electronic toy in the form of a fluffy animal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Furby?
Furby 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).
Forms of Furby
- Furbies plural
- Furbys plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Furby?
Furby appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th 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 Furby come from?
Marketing coinage, from fur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).