basketball

Other forms of basketball

plural

basketballs·

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 basketball

What does basketball mean?

basketball means "a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in basketball?

basketball has 3 syllables: bas-ket-ball. The stress falls on "bas". In IPA it is /ˈbæskətˌbɔl/.

What is another word for basketball?

Close synonyms include basketball game, hoops. 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 basketball a common word?

basketball 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 basketball?

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