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say it: ROO-purt
rupert is a noun meaning "English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)". It is pronounced /ˈɹupɚt/ — ROO-purt. It carries one recorded sense.
English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)
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 rupert 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.