racquetball
noun
racquetball is spelled R-A-C-Q-U-E-T-B-A-L-L. The wrong spelling people search most is raquetball: about 280 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Racquetball is a noun meaning “A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball”. The plural of racquetball is racquetballs.
How many letters and syllables are in racquetball?
| Letters | 11: R-A-C-Q-U-E-T-B-A-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 56,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, raquetball, about 280 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell racquetball?
Racquetball is spelled R-A-C-Q-U-E-T-B-A-L-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for racquetball in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is racquetball?
Racquetball appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).
How do you pronounce racquetball?
Racquetball has 3 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-racquetball.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of racquetball
- racquetballs plural
- racketball
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does racquetball mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball.
- 2
A ball used for this sport.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Racquetball in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sport similar to squash:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Racquetball |
| Portuguese | raquetebol |
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 racquetball come from?
From racquet + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).