preseason

1. 1.

   a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation

   Broaderseason

   Narrowerspring training

Other forms of preseason

plural

preseasons·

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 preseason

What does preseason mean?

preseason means "a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation".

How many syllables are in preseason?

preseason has 3 syllables: pre-sea-son. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˌpɹiˈsizən/.

Is preseason a common word?

preseason 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.

What rhymes with preseason?

1 word rhymes with preseason. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.