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bodyboard

noun, verb

bodyboard is spelled B-O-D-Y-B-O-A-R-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bodyboard means “A piece of foam, usually rectangular in shape, upon which one sits or lies when bodyboarding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bodyboard is bodyboards.

How many letters and syllables are in bodyboard?

Letters9: B-O-D-Y-B-O-A-R-D
In writingabout once in every 31 million words; the 169,822nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bodyboard?

Bodyboard appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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).

Forms of bodyboard

  • bodyboards plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • bodyboarding participle, present
  • bodyboarded participle, past

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

What does bodyboard mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A piece of foam, usually rectangular in shape, upon which one sits or lies when bodyboarding.

verb

  1. 1

    To surf riding a bodyboard

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

Where does bodyboard come from?

From body + board.

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

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