pitching

Other forms of pitching

plural

pitchings·

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 pitching

What does pitching mean?

pitching means "(baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pitching?

pitching has 2 syllables: pit-ching. The stress falls on "pit". In IPA it is /ˈpɪtʃɪŋ/.

What is another word for pitching?

Close synonyms include lurch, pitch. 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 pitching a common word?

pitching 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.