fuzzball
noun
fuzzball is a noun meaning “A ball of fuzzy material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-Z-Z-B-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fuzzball is fuzzballs.
What does fuzzball mean?
noun
- 1
A ball of fuzzy material.
- 2
informalAny soft, fuzzy creature.
Near-synonyms: furball, fluffball
- 3
A quantum description of a black hole in superstring theory.
- 4
A puffball.
- 5
An informal American street game resembling baseball.
- 6
Synonym of pill (“ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fuzzball
- fuzzballs plural
- fuzzy-ball
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fuzzball?
Fuzzball appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 fuzzball come from?
From fuzz + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).