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infielder

noun

infielder is spelled I-N-F-I-E-L-D-E-R: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, infielder means “A player who plays in the infield, which is the inner portion of the field” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of infielder is infielders.

How many letters and syllables are in infielder?

Letters9: I-N-F-I-E-L-D-E-R
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 infielder?

Infielder appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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 infielder?

  • Australia

Infielder has 3 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-infielder.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of infielder

  • infielders plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does infielder mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A player who plays in the infield, which is the inner portion of the field.

    The infielder run in to field the bunt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does infielder come from?

From infield + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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