skateboard
/ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/noun, verb
skateboard is spelled S-K-A-T-E-B-O-A-R-D. The wrong spelling people search most is skamtebord: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 286 of all searches for the word. Skateboard is a noun meaning “A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by…”. The plural of skateboard is skateboards.
How many letters and syllables are in skateboard?
| Letters | 10: S-K-A-T-E-B-O-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, skamtebord, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell skateboard?
Skateboard is spelled S-K-A-T-E-B-O-A-R-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 287 of the searches for skateboard in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is skateboard?
Skateboard appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd 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 skateboard?
- UK /ˈskeɪt.bɔːd/
- US /ˈskeɪt.bɔɹd/
Skateboard 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-skateboard.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of skateboard
- skateboards plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- skateboarding participle, present
- skateboarded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does skateboard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot.
She's been riding skateboards since she was eight years old.
- 2
A skateboard vehicle chassis: a chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (i.e. batteries), forming the vehicular base; an instance of this format.
A new crossover model will arrive next year and will be based on an existing skateboard.
verb
- 1
To use a skateboard.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Skateboard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | planche à roulettes, skateboard, skate , skater, faire du skate |
| German | Skateboard , skateboarden |
| Portuguese | skate, esqueite , andar de skate |
| Spanish | monopatín, patineta, skate |
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 skateboard come from?
From skate + board. The foot-treadable skateboard sense (noun sense 1) came first (mid-20th century). The vehicle chassis sense (noun sense 2) was named for its resemblance thereto (late 20th or early 21st century).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).