softball

Other forms of softball

plural

softballs·

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 softball

What does softball mean?

softball means "ball used in playing softball". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in softball?

softball has 2 syllables: soft-ball. The stress falls on "soft". In IPA it is /ˈsɔftˌbɔl/.

What is another word for softball?

Close synonyms include playground ball, softball game. 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.

What is the opposite of softball?

The recorded antonyms are hardball.

Is softball a common word?

softball 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 softball?

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