baseball-player

noun

"baseball-player" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“baseball-player” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of baseball player.

Corpus desk

Index EN-baseball-player · baseball-player · English

baseball-player · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for baseball-player
PropertyValue
Headwordbaseball-player
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “baseball-player” in English

baseball-playersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

baseball-player is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of baseball player.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for baseball-player, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is baseball-player, spelled B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L---P-L-A-Y-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative form of baseball player.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how baseball-player appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The band to take the place of the baseball-players as they become fatigued and fall out.
  2. The sawing began at 10.25; all hands rested thirty minutes, and lunched at 12 o’clock. The Independents completed their last stick in three hours and ten minutes.—The Fenians got through next. Then the baseball-players, […]

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baseball-player"?
"baseball-player" is spelled B-A-S-E-B-A-L-L---P-L-A-Y-E-R.
What does "baseball-player" mean?
As a noun, "baseball-player" means: Alternative form of baseball player.
What language does "baseball-player" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list