# ruck

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹʌk/ · frequency rank #39,069

## Definitions
1. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
2. In Australian rules football
3. In Australian rules football
4. In Australian rules football
5. In Australian rules football
6. The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
7. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
8. An argument or fight.

## Etymology
From Middle English ruke, from or related to Old Norse hraukr, which is from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“haystack, heap”). Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.

## Easily confused with
- **run** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-run)
- **rug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rug)
- **rum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rum)
- **rue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rue)
- **rut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rut)
- **Rus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rus)
- **rule** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rule)
- **runs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-runs)
- **rush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rush)
- **ruin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-ruin)
- **rude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rude)
- **ruth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-ruth)
- **rust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rust)
- **Russ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-russ)
- **Rudy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rudy)
- **rudd** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rudd)
- **rung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rung)
- **ruse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-ruse)
- **ruff** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-ruff)
- **rump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruck-vs-rump)

## Common misspellings (6)
`rcuk`, `rruck`, `rucck`, `ruckk`, `rukc`, `urck`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ruck