sidebar
noun, verb
sidebar is spelled S-I-D-E-B-A-R: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sidebar means “A short news story printed alongside a larger one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sidebar is sidebars.
How many letters and syllables are in sidebar?
| Letters | 7: S-I-D-E-B-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sidebar?
Sidebar appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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).
How do you pronounce sidebar?
- US
Sidebar has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sidebar.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sidebar?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sidebar.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: seabird.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of sidebar
- sidebars plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sidebarring participle, present
- sidebarred participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sidebar mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A short news story printed alongside a larger one.
- 2
A block of information placed at the side of a printed page.
The tables in the sidebar can be used to determine “average” height and weight, and to provide a slight random variation if desired.
- 3
A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.
- 4
USA short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the hearing of the jury and the spectators at the court.
- 5
USThe place in the courtroom where such a conference happens.
- 6
An accessory side note or aside made during a conversation, without changing the scope of the audience.
Well, when Charlotte had her mini-death, she went to Hell. Forest haunted her Hell loop and now is haunting her nightmares -- which, sidebar, Dan is also a part of, so things are heating up.
- 7
A short conversation between a smaller portion of a group held outside the hearing of the rest of the group.
May we have a moment to discuss your proposition? Sidebar! Let's pick a topic. Sidebar!
verb
- 1
To place (information) into a sidebar, or as if into a sidebar.
Morgan "One of them was called Alexandria and then there was a place called the Kingdom. It actually had a king." Althea "A king?" Morgan "Even had a pet tiger." Althea "All right, we're gonna have to sidebar that one. These settlements, we
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sidebar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense internet: block of information placed at the side of a webpage:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Seitenleiste |
| Portuguese | barra lateral |
| Spanish | barra lateral |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sidebar come from?
From side + bar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).