fencepost
noun
fencepost is a noun meaning “A post which helps hold up a fence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-N-C-E-P-O-S-T, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fencepost is fenceposts.
What does fencepost mean?
noun
- 1
A post which helps hold up a fence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fencepost
- fenceposts plural
- fence-post
- fence post
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fencepost?
Fencepost appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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).
Fencepost in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense post holding up a fence:
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 fencepost come from?
From fence + post.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).