Home run or homerun?
home run is a noun meaning “A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely…”; homerun is a noun meaning “Alternative form of home run”. home run is written as two words and homerun as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between home run and homerun?
| home run | homerun | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping illegally and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on… | Alternative form of home run |
| Example | The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth | none recorded |
| Forms | none | homeruns |
| Pronunciation | [hɔʊːm ɹʌn] | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 3 million words |
Sources: home run and homerun in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of home run and homerun
home run
- 1
A four-base hit, allowing the batter to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team
The first baseman hit a home run to lead off the ninth
- 2
A three-base hit, a legal hit where the batter gets to third base without stopping illegally and without the opposing team attempting to put the batter out on earlier bases, scoring one run…
- 3
The portion of a journey that ends at home
I'm on the home run
- 4
A success, especially a popular success
The product was a home run
- 5
slangSexual intercourse
- 6
A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination
homerun
- 1
Alternative form of home run
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, home run or homerun?
home run is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; homerun about once in every 3 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).