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posterboard

noun

posterboard is spelled P-O-S-T-E-R-B-O-A-R-D: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, posterboard means “Cardboard material suitable for making posters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of posterboard is posterboards.

How many letters and syllables are in posterboard?

Letters11: P-O-S-T-E-R-B-O-A-R-D
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th 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 posterboard?

Posterboard appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).

Forms of posterboard

  • posterboards plural

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

What does posterboard mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Cardboard material suitable for making posters.

    I used a piece of posterboard for my project.

  2. 2

    A piece of such material.

    I used the posterboard for my project.

  3. 3

    A flyer printed on stiff cardboard, approximately 8.5 by 11 inches, mailed flat.

    They sent me a nice posterboard on the new product.

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

Where does posterboard come from?

From poster + board.

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

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