glove

Other forms of glove

plural

gloves·

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 glove

What does glove mean?

glove means "the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glove?

glove has 1 syllable: glove. In IPA it is /ˈɡlʌv/.

What is another word for glove?

Close synonyms include baseball glove, baseball mitt, mitt, boxing glove. 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 glove a common word?

glove 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 glove?

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