ball: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with B · ends with L
Meaning of ball
noun
- countable, uncountable
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
Example: a ball of spittle; a fecal ball
- countable, uncountable
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
Example: a ball of wool; a ball of twine
- countable, uncountable
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. A food preparation formed into a spherical shape.
Example: This dish is served with balls of potato.
- countable, uncountable
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane. In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
Listed forms: balls.
Source: Wiktionary — ball.
verb
- transitive
To form or wind into a ball.
Example: to ball cotton
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- US, intransitive, transitive, vulgar
To have sexual intercourse (with).
- ambitransitive
To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
Example: the horse balls
Listed forms: balls, balling, balled.
Source: Wiktionary — ball.
intj
An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
Source: Wiktionary — ball.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for ball.
noun
a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- musket ball
noun
an object with a spherical shape
noun
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
noun
a compact mass
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is ball in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of ball
B(3) + A(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of ball
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from ball
7 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in ball. Showing up to 24, longest first.