groundball

Questions about groundball

What does groundball mean?

groundball means "(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground".

How many syllables are in groundball?

groundball has 2 syllables and divides as ground-ball under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for groundball?

Close synonyms include grounder, ground ball, hopper. 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 groundball a common word?

groundball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.