ballpark

Other forms of ballpark

plural

ballparks·

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.

Questions about ballpark

What does ballpark mean?

ballpark means "a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ballpark?

ballpark has 2 syllables: ball-park. The stress falls on "ball". In IPA it is /ˈbɔlˌpɑɹk/.

What is another word for ballpark?

Close synonyms include park, approximate range. 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 ballpark a common word?

ballpark is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ballpark?

1 word rhymes with ballpark. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.