rightfield

1. 1.

   the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right

   Synonymsright fieldright

   Broadertract

   Part ofoutfield
2. 2.

   the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate)

   Synonymsright field

   Broaderposition

   Part ofbaseball team

Other forms of rightfield

plural

rightfields·

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 rightfield

What does rightfield mean?

rightfield means "the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rightfield?

rightfield has 2 syllables: right-field. The stress falls on "right".

What is another word for rightfield?

Close synonyms include right field, right, right field. 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 rightfield a common word?

rightfield is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.