in-bounds

1. 1.

   between the first and third base lines

   Similarfair

   baseball

Questions about in-bounds

What does in-bounds mean?

in-bounds means "between the first and third base lines".

How many syllables are in in-bounds?

in-bounds has 2 syllables and divides as in--bounds 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.

Is in-bounds a common word?

in-bounds 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.