fastball

Other forms of fastball

plural

fastballs·

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 fastball

What does fastball mean?

fastball means "(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity".

How many syllables are in fastball?

fastball has 2 syllables: fast-ball. The stress falls on "fast". In IPA it is /ˈfæstˌbɔl/.

What is another word for fastball?

Close synonyms include heater, smoke, hummer, bullet. 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 fastball a common word?

fastball 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 fastball?

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