shuffleboard
"shuffleboard" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shuffleboard” is uncommon English (frequency #80,881 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,881
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A game that involves sliding a puck or coin towards a target.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shuffleboard · shuffleboard · English
shuffleboard · rank #80,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,881
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shraddha
Nearest frequency peer: Shraddha (-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 “shuffleboard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shd
shd
19,128 corpus weight
- Shepperton
Shepperton
19,127 corpus weight
- Shinawatra
Shinawatra
19,125 corpus weight
- Shraddha
Shraddha
19,121 corpus weight
- shuffleboard
shuffleboard
19,120 corpus weight
- Simpkins
Simpkins
19,113 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shuffleboard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shuffleboard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #80,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shuffleboard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shuffleboard is uncommon English at frequency #80,881 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for shuffleboard in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier shovillaborde (“shovel board”), an alteration of shove-board, from shove + board. The correct English form is shuffleboard, spelled S-H-U-F-F-L-E-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A game that involves sliding a puck or coin towards a target.
- 2The long, narrow board on which this game is played.
Etymology
From earlier shovillaborde (“shovel board”), an alteration of shove-board, from shove + 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).