Rights are the freedoms every person is entitled to — to speak, to vote, to live safely. Human rights, civil rights, know your rights.
The word covers both moral claims and legal ones, and the argument is usually about which is which. Human rights are held by everybody simply for being human; civil rights are granted by a particular state; legal rights are whatever the law says. Rights also means legal permission to use a work: film rights, publishing rights, all rights reserved. Note the singular right, and that a right implies somebody else's duty.
1nounrightsThe freedoms every person is entitled to.
“She spent forty years defending other people's rights.”
synonyms: human rights, entitlements
2nounpermissionLegal permission to use or publish a work.
“The film rights were sold before the book was finished.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
rights is entitlements.
Also accepted in games: human rights