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basketball

BA-skat-BAWL
baskatbawl in Ingglish
IPA /ˈbæskətˌbɔl/ · 3 syllables

How “basketball” is spelled in Ingglish

Each letter group of “basketball” and how Ingglish spells it (an em dash means those letters make no sound)
Englishbasketball
Ingglishbaskatbawl

“basketball” sound by sound

Sound-by-sound breakdown of “basketball”
Ingglishbaskatbawl
IPA/b//æ//s//k//ə//t//b//ɔ//l/
Sounds
9 sounds from 10 letters: 3 vowels /æ/, /ə/, /ɔ/ and 6 consonants /b/, /s/, /k/, /t/, /b/, /l/
Syllables
3 — BA · skat · BAWL, stress on the 1st
Frequency
common: 21.9 uses per million words of film and TV subtitles (SUBTLEX), ranking #2,482 of the 48,804 words on this site
Rhyme ending
/æskətbɔl/

“basketball” — questions & answers

How do you spell “basketball”?

B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L in English; “baskatbawl” in Ingglish.

How do you pronounce “basketball”?

BA-skat-BAWL — IPA /ˈbæskətˌbɔl/, 3 syllables, stress on the 1st.

What is the IPA for “basketball”?

/ˈbæskətˌbɔl/ — 3 syllables, stress on the 1st.

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