roebuck
/ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/noun
roebuck is a noun meaning “A male roe deer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-E-B-U-C-K and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of roebuck is roebucks.
What does roebuck mean?
noun
- 1
A male roe deer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce roebuck?
- UK /ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/
Roebuck 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: En-us-roebuck.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of roebuck
- roebucks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is roebuck?
Roebuck appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th 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).
Roebuck in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense male roe deer:
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 roebuck come from?
From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe + buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).