grounder

Questions about grounder

What does grounder mean?

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

How many syllables are in grounder?

grounder has 2 syllables: groun-der. The stress falls on "groun". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaʊndɚ/.

What is another word for grounder?

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

grounder 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.