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say it: RAHY-vuhl-ree
rivalry is a noun meaning "the act of competing as for profit or a prize". It is pronounced /ˈɹaɪvəlɹi/ — RAHY-vuhl-ree. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of competing as for profit or a prize
“the teams were in fierce contention for first place”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rivalry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.