Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dead rubber

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

Syllables: dead- rub-ber
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In a series of sporting fixtures, a match of which the result is irrelevant, the winner of the series, or the outcome of the league, having already been determined by earlier results.

Example Sentences

"It also means Tuchel can use qualifiers that are now effectively dead rubbers against Serbia at Wembley and away to Albania to continuing shaping his squad in readiness for the World Cup."

Inflected Forms

dead rubbers (plural)

Questions

What does dead rubber mean?: In a series of sporting fixtures, a match of which the result is irrelevant, the winner of the series, or the outcome of the league, having already been determined by earlier results.

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