runrig
noun
runrig is a noun meaning “A system of land tenure in which farmland was divided into irregular strips and allocated to tenants in rotation; a strip of such land” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-N-R-I-G, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of runrig is runrigs.
What does runrig mean?
noun
- 1
A system of land tenure in which farmland was divided into irregular strips and allocated to tenants in rotation; a strip of such land.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of runrig
- runrigs plural
- runridge
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is runrig?
Runrig appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 runrig come from?
From run + rig (“ridge”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).