southpaw

Other forms of southpaw

plural

southpaws·

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 southpaw

What does southpaw mean?

southpaw means "a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in southpaw?

southpaw has 2 syllables: south-paw. The stress falls on "south". In IPA it is /ˈsaʊθˌpaʊ/.

What is another word for southpaw?

Close synonyms include left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty. 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 southpaw a common word?

southpaw 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.

What rhymes with southpaw?

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