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endpaper

noun

endpaper is spelled E-N-D-P-A-P-E-R: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, endpaper means “Either of two folded sheets of paper used to connect the front and back covers of a book to the first and last pages; one side of each endpaper is…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of endpaper is endpapers.

How many letters and syllables are in endpaper?

Letters8: E-N-D-P-A-P-E-R
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd 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 endpaper?

Endpaper appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 endpaper

  • endpapers plural

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

What does endpaper mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Either of two folded sheets of paper used to connect the front and back covers of a book to the first and last pages; one side of each endpaper is glued to the cover board, and the other side forms a flyleaf.

    Meronyms: flyleaf, pastedown

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

Endpaper in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense either of two folded sheets of paper used to connect the front and back covers o:

LanguageWords
Frenchpage de garde
GermanVorsatz, Nachsatz, Vorsatzblatt, Vorsatzpapier
Spanishguarda

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 endpaper come from?

From end + paper.

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

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