baseball: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 12 letter points · starts with B · ends with L
Meaning of baseball
noun
- uncountable
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.
- countable
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- countable, uncountable
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Listed forms: baseballs.
Source: Wiktionary — baseball.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- baseball game
- ball
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is baseball in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of baseball
B(3) + A(1) + S(1) + E(1) + B(3) + A(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 12 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 baseball
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 baseball
76 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in baseball. Showing up to 24, longest first.