baseball

Other forms of baseball

plural

baseballs·

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 baseball

What does baseball mean?

baseball means "a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baseball?

baseball has 2 syllables: base-ball. The stress falls on "base". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪsˈbɔl/.

What is another word for baseball?

Close synonyms include baseball game, ball. 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 baseball a common word?

baseball is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 baseball?

24 words rhyme with baseball. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.