plasterboard
"plasterboard" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plasterboard” is uncommon English (frequency #87,684 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,684
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.
| 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) |
Where “plasterboard” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
plasterboard is uncommon English at frequency #87,684 among 46,516 “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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Using “plasterboard”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-L-A-S-T-E-R-B-O-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.