jai alai

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   a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket

   Synonymspelota

   Broadercourt game

Questions about jai alai

What does jai alai mean?

jai alai means "a Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket".

What is another word for jai alai?

Close synonyms include pelota. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jai alai a common word?

jai alai is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.