larboard
/ˈlɑɹbɔɹd/obsolete
larboard is spelled L-A-R-B-O-A-R-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, larboard means “The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of larboard is larboards.
How many letters and syllables are in larboard?
| Letters | 8: L-A-R-B-O-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 111,684th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is larboard?
Larboard 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).
How do you pronounce larboard?
- UK /ˈlɑːbɔːd/
- UK /ˈlabəd/
- US /ˈlɑɹbɔɹd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-larboard.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-larboard2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with larboard?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as larboard (/ɑɹbɔɹd/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: labrador.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does larboard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
archaicThe left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does larboard come from?
From Middle English ladde-bord, latebord, most likely referring to the side of the ship on which cargo was loaded. Changed to larboard in the 1500s by association with starboard. (Texts from the 1500s have spellings like lerbord, leereboord, larboord, corresponding to how they spell sterbord, steereboord, starboord.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).