plasterboard
"plasterboard" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plasterboard” is uncommon English (frequency #87,684 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,684
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plasterboard · plasterboard · English
plasterboard · rank #87,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,684
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH planta
Nearest frequency peer: planta (-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 “plasterboard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pinecone
pinecone
12,323 corpus weight
- planta
planta
12,318 corpus weight
- plasterboard
plasterboard
12,317 corpus weight
- pneumonic
pneumonic
12,314 corpus weight
- Pontypool
Pontypool
12,312 corpus weight
- poos
poos
12,311 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “plasterboard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plasterboard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “plasterboard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
plasterboard is uncommon English at frequency #87,684 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.".
plasterboard doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From plaster + board. The correct English form is plasterboard, spelled P-L-A-S-T-E-R-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.
Etymology
From plaster + board.
Synonyms
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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