ballplayer

Other forms of ballplayer

plural

ballplayers·

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 ballplayer

What does ballplayer mean?

ballplayer means "an athlete who plays baseball".

How many syllables are in ballplayer?

ballplayer has 3 syllables: ball-pla-yer. The stress falls on "ball". In IPA it is /ˈbɔlˌpleɪɚ/.

What is another word for ballplayer?

Close synonyms include baseball player. 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 ballplayer a common word?

ballplayer 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.

What rhymes with ballplayer?

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