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pageboy

noun

pageboy is spelled P-A-G-E-B-O-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pageboy means “A boy who serves as a page” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pageboy is pageboys.

How many letters and syllables are in pageboy?

Letters7: P-A-G-E-B-O-Y
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 139,999th 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 pageboy?

Pageboy appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th 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 pageboy?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-pageboy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pageboy

  • pageboys plural
  • page boy
  • page-boy

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

What does pageboy mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A boy who serves as a page.

  2. 2

    A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.

  3. 3

    A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.

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

Pageboy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpage (boy that is a page)
GermanPage (boy that is a page), Pagenschnitt (shoulderlength hair)
Portuguesepajem (boy that is a page)
Spanishpage, pagecito, paje (boy that is a page)

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 pageboy come from?

From page + boy.

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

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