screwball
SKROO-BAWL
skroobawl in Ingglish
IPA /ˈskɹuˌbɔl/ · 2 syllables
How “screwball” is spelled in Ingglish
| English | s | c | r | ew | b | al | l |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingglish | s | k | r | oo | b | awl | — |
“screwball” sound by sound
| Ingglish | s | k | r | oo | b | aw | l |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | /s/ | /k/ | /ɹ/ | /u/ | /b/ | /ɔ/ | /l/ |
- Sounds
- 7 sounds from 9 letters: 2 vowels /u/, /ɔ/ and 5 consonants /s/, /k/, /ɹ/, /b/, /l/
- Syllables
- 2 — SKROO · BAWL, stress on the 1st
- Frequency
- fairly common: 1.1 uses per million words of film and TV subtitles (SUBTLEX), ranking #16,160 of the 48,804 words on this site
- Rhyme ending
- /ubɔl/
“screwball” — questions & answers
How do you spell “screwball”?
S-C-R-E-W-B-A-L-L in English; “skroobawl” in Ingglish.
How do you pronounce “screwball”?
SKROO-BAWL — IPA /ˈskɹuˌbɔl/, 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.
What is the IPA for “screwball”?
/ˈskɹuˌbɔl/ — 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.