chipboard
noun
chipboard is a noun meaning “A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-P-B-O-A-R-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chipboard is chipboards.
What does chipboard mean?
noun
- 1
AustraliaUKA building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chipboard?
Chipboard 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).
Forms of chipboard
- chipboards plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chipboard?
Chipboard appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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).
Chipboard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A material made from compressed wood chips:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aggloméré |
| German | Spanplatte |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does chipboard come from?
From chip + board.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).