rugby
The verdict
“rugby” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #21,872 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,872
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a bola oval até a linha de fundo adversária ou fazê-la passar por entre as traves da meta, s...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rugby |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rugby” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for rugby is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #21,872 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a bola oval até a linha de fundo adversária ou fazê-la passar por entre as traves da meta, s...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rugby, with forms such as "rguby", "rrugby", and "rubgy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rusty", "rubi", "rúgbi", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is rugby, spelled R-U-G-B-Y.
Definition
- 1esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a bola oval até a linha de fundo adversária ou fazê-la passar por entre as traves da meta, sobre aquela linha
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rguby,rrugby,rubgy,rugbby,rugbyy,ruggby,rugyb,urgby
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rugby - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rugby”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is R-U-G-B-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “rusty” - see the side-by-side comparison. rugby vs rusty
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.