pageboy
"pageboy" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pageboy” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A boy who serves as a page.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pageboy · pageboy · English
pageboy · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pageboy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pageboy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pageboy is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pageboy, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From page + boy. The correct English form is pageboy, spelled P-A-G-E-B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1A boy who serves as a page.
- 2A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.
- 3A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pageboy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.
She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid.
Etymology
From page + boy.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.