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boardgame

noun

boardgame is spelled B-O-A-R-D-G-A-M-E: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, boardgame means “Alternative form of board game” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of boardgame is boardgames.

How many letters and syllables are in boardgame?

Letters9: B-O-A-R-D-G-A-M-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is boardgame?

Boardgame appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce boardgame?

    Boardgame has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Words people confuse with boardgame

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    Also written: board-game (one word or two).

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    What rhymes with boardgame?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as boardgame.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: gameboard.

    Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

    Forms of boardgame

    • boardgames plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does boardgame mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      Alternative form of board game.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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