home run
[hɔʊːm ɹʌn]noun
home run is spelled H-O-M-E-R-U-N: 7 letters. As a noun, home run means “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” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of home run is home runs.
How many letters and syllables are in home run?
| Letters | 7: H-O-M-E-R-U-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | a phrase: the frequency list counts single words |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you pronounce home run?
- US [hɔʊːm ɹʌn]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-home_run.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with home run
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: homerun (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of home run
- home runs plural
- homerun
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does home run mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 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 immediately.
- 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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Home run in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (baseball) four-base hit:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | coup de circuit, circuit |
| Portuguese | home run |
| Spanish | jonrón, cuadrangular, tablazo, toletazo, vuelacerca, vuelacercas |
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.