rudd
/ɹʌd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
noun
Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
name
A surname transferred from the nickname.
name
A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds."
- "I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke."
Etymology
Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka. Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₁rewdʰ-, -