Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

comebacker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English

Syllables: come-back-er
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A batted ball that travels toward the pitcher.

noun

One who makes a comeback.

Example Sentences

"It's a comebacker past second base for a single."
"The pitcher fields the comebacker and throws it to first for the out."
"Hendricks was only able to throw 52 pitches, surrendering two runs in 3.2 innings before being forced out of action when Angel Pagan's comebacker hit his right forearm."
"The next hitter, Jayson Werth, reached on a broken-bat infield single, and Greg Dobbs walked to load the bases, but Heilman induced a comebacker from Chris Coste to end the rally."
"[…] a successful comebacker at the party leadership and ministerial levels."

Etymology

From come back + -er.

Inflected Forms

comebackers (plural)

Questions

What does comebacker mean?: A batted ball that travels toward the pitcher.
Where does comebacker come from?: From come back + -er.

How to pronounce comebacker

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