hitter

Other forms of hitter

plural

hitters·

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 hitter

What does hitter mean?

hitter means "(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hitter?

hitter has 2 syllables: hit-ter. The stress falls on "hit". In IPA it is /ˈhɪtɚ/.

What is another word for hitter?

Close synonyms include batter, slugger, batsman, striker. 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 hitter a common word?

hitter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.