beachball
noun, verb
beachball is spelled B-E-A-C-H-B-A-L-L: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, beachball means “Alternative form of beach ball” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of beachball is beachballs.
How many letters and syllables are in beachball?
| Letters | 9: B-E-A-C-H-B-A-L-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 40 million words; the 194,306th 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 beachball?
Beachball appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 beachball?
- Australia
Beachball 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-au-beachball.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of beachball
- beachballs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- beachballing participle, present
- beachballed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does beachball mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative form of beach ball.
verb
- 1
slangTo hang; to stop responding to user input.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does beachball come from?
From beach + ball. For the computing sense, because Mac computers indicate waiting with a spinning coloured cursor like a beach ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).