dartboard
/ˈdɑːtbɔːd/
"dartboard" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dartboard” is uncommon English (frequency #97,996 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,996
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A board used as a target for throwing darts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dartboard · dartboard · English
dartboard · rank #97,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,996
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dango
Nearest frequency peer: dango (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “dartboard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dacey
Dacey
2,010 corpus weight
- dago
dago
2,009 corpus weight
- Dair
Dair
2,008 corpus weight
- dango
dango
2,006 corpus weight
- dartboard
dartboard
2,005 corpus weight
- dawdle
dawdle
2,002 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dartboard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dartboard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɑːtbɔːd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dartboard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dartboard is uncommon English at frequency #97,996 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdɑːtbɔːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A board used as a target for throwing darts.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dartboard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From dart + board. The correct English form is dartboard, spelled D-A-R-T-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A board used as a target for throwing darts.
Etymology
From dart + board.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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