rugby
French, noun/ʁyɡ.bi/
rugby is spelled R-U-G-B-Y (5 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rugby is a French masculine noun meaning “rugby (sport)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sport collectif se jouant avec un ballon ovale entre deux équipes sur un terrain de pelouse. Le but étant de…”.
What does rugby mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerugby (sport)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sport collectif se jouant avec un ballon ovale entre deux équipes sur un terrain de pelouse. Le but étant de faire progresser le ballon jusqu’à l’aplatir dans l’enbut adverse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rugby
- rugbys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rugby?
- /ʁyɡ.bi/
- \ʁyɡ.bi\
- \ʁy.bi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rugby
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rugby in French?
rugby appears 15 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).