pegboard

noun

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"pegboard" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“pegboard” is uncommon English (frequency #94,108 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,108
frequency rank, English
46,516
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.

Key facts for pegboard
PropertyValue
Headwordpegboard
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#94,108
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pegboard” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). pegboard lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pegboard is uncommon English at frequency #94,108 among 46,516 “P” headwords, 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 pegboard, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From peg + board. The correct English form is pegboard, spelled P-E-G-B-O-A-R-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.
  2. 2
    A metal board attached to the base of a metal display unit (FSDU) from which shelves, hooks or bars are attached (when bars are attached, they subsequently have pegs clipped onto them)
  3. 3
    A perforated form of hardboard.

Etymology

From peg + board.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pegboard"?
"pegboard" is spelled P-E-G-B-O-A-R-D.
What does "pegboard" mean?
As a noun, "pegboard" means: A board that has a pattern of holes into which pegs are fitted; used especially to record the score in some card games.
What is the origin of the word "pegboard"?
From peg + board. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “pegboard”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is P-E-G-B-O-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list