Board game or boardgame?
board game is a noun meaning “Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board…”; boardgame is a noun meaning “Alternative form of board game”. board game is written as two words and boardgame as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between board game and boardgame?
| board game | boardgame | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards | Alternative form of board game |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | board-games | boardgames |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 8 million words |
Sources: board game and boardgame in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of board game and boardgame
board game
- 1
Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards
- 2
datedDated form of board game
boardgame
- 1
Alternative form of board game
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, board game or boardgame?
board game is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; boardgame about once in every 8 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).