# baseball

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/ · frequency rank #2,773

## Definitions
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.

## Etymology
From base + ball.

## Easily confused with
- **basketball** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baseball-vs-basketball)

## Common misspellings (10)
`abseball`, `baesball`, `basbeall`, `baseabll`, `basebal`, `basebball`, `baseblal`, `basseball`, `bbaseball`, `bsaeball`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/baseball