signboard
/ˈsaɪnˌbɔɹd/
"signboard" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“signboard” is uncommon English (frequency #90,992 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,992
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A board carrying a sign, or on which signs may be posted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-signboard · signboard · English
signboard · rank #90,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,992
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sigmoid
Nearest frequency peer: sigmoid (-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 “signboard”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sifu
sifu
9,012 corpus weight
- sigmoid
sigmoid
9,010 corpus weight
- signboard
signboard
9,009 corpus weight
- skipjack
skipjack
9,007 corpus weight
- slaty
slaty
9,005 corpus weight
- slinking
slinking
9,004 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “signboard” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | signboard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsaɪnˌbɔɹd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “signboard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
signboard is uncommon English at frequency #90,992 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsaɪnˌbɔɹd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A board carrying a sign, or on which signs may be posted.".
signboard has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sign + board. The correct English form is signboard, spelled S-I-G-N-B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1A board carrying a sign, or on which signs may be posted.
Etymology
From sign + board.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).