rugby
Portuguese, noun/ˈʁɐɡ.bi/
rugby is spelled R-U-G-B-Y (5 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,687th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rugby is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of rúgbi /râguebi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “esporte em que duas equipes de 15 jogadores se enfrentam, usando as mãos e os pés, na tentativa de levar a…”.
What does rugby mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of rúgbi /râguebi
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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, sobre aquela linha
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rugby
- rug.by canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rugby?
- Brazil /ˈʁɐɡ.bi/
- Brazil [ˈhɐɡ.bi]
- Brazil /ˈʁɐ.ɡi.bi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (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 Portuguese?
rugby appears 2.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).