How to pronounce inning
American English pronunciation
IN-ing
- IPA
- /ˈɪnɪŋ/
- Syllables
- IN · ing (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What inning means
A part of a baseball game when each team gets to bat
In a sentence: Our team scored three runs in the last inning.
Where it comes from: It comes from innings, an older word that people mistook for a plural.
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