baseball
/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/noun
baseball is spelled B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,785th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, baseball means “A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of baseball is baseballs.
How many letters and syllables are in baseball?
| Letters | 8: B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,785th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is baseball?
Baseball appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,785th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce baseball?
- UK /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/
- US /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/
- US /ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
Baseball has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-baseball.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with baseball
Also written: base-ball (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of baseball
- baseballs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does baseball mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
- 2
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- 3
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate baseball?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of baseball: BB.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Baseball in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | baseball, base-ball , balle de baseball |
| German | Baseball |
| Portuguese | beisebol, basebol , bola de beisebol |
| Spanish | béisbol, beisbol , pelota beisbolera, bola beisbolística |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does baseball come from?
From base + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).