paperboard
"paperboard" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paperboard” is uncommon English (frequency #73,514 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,514
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thick paper, or thin cardboard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paperboard · paperboard · English
paperboard · rank #73,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,514
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH patristic
Nearest frequency peer: patristic (+1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “paperboard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- palmed
palmed
26,490 corpus weight
- paperboard
paperboard
26,487 corpus weight
- patristic
patristic
26,486 corpus weight
- penicillium
penicillium
26,484 corpus weight
- penna
penna
26,483 corpus weight
- personae
personae
26,482 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “paperboard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paperboard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “paperboard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
paperboard is uncommon English at frequency #73,514 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A thick paper, or thin cardboard.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paperboard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From paper + board. The correct English form is paperboard, spelled P-A-P-E-R-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A thick paper, or thin cardboard.
Etymology
From paper + board.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).