sideboard
noun, verb
sideboard is spelled S-I-D-E-B-O-A-R-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sideboard means “A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sideboard is sideboards.
How many letters and syllables are in sideboard?
| Letters | 9: S-I-D-E-B-O-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 37,459th 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; 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 sideboard?
Sideboard appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th 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 sideboard?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-sideboard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sideboard?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sideboard.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: broadside.
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 sideboard
- sideboards plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sideboarding participle, present
- sideboarded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sideboard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.
- 2
A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
- 3
A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
- 4
A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
verb
- 1
To include (a card) in one's sideboard.
- 2
To add sideboards to.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sideboard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense furniture:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | buffet |
| German | Anrichte, Sideboard, Büfett |
| Portuguese | aparador, buffet, bufê |
| Spanish | aparador |
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 sideboard come from?
From side + board.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).