dugout

Other forms of dugout

plural

dugouts·

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 dugout

What does dugout mean?

dugout means "either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dugout?

dugout has 2 syllables: dug-out. The stress falls on "dug". In IPA it is /ˈdʌˌɡaʊt/.

What is another word for dugout?

Close synonyms include dugout canoe, pirogue, bunker. 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 dugout a common word?

dugout 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 dugout?

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