lineup

Other forms of lineup

plural

lineups·

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 lineup

What does lineup mean?

lineup means "(baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lineup?

lineup has 2 syllables: li-neup. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪˌnʌp/.

What is another word for lineup?

Close synonyms include batting order, card, police lineup, identity parade. 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 lineup a common word?

lineup 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.

What rhymes with lineup?

4 words rhyme with lineup. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.