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snowboarding

/ˈsnoʊbɔɹdɪŋ/noun, verb

snowboarding is spelled S-N-O-W-B-O-A-R-D-I-N-G: 12 letters. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snowboarding means “The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in snowboarding?

Letters12: S-N-O-W-B-O-A-R-D-I-N-G
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is snowboarding?

Snowboarding appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 snowboarding?

  • UK /ˈsnəʊbɔːdɪŋ/
  • US /ˈsnoʊbɔɹdɪŋ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-snowboarding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does snowboarding mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of snowboard (a form of snowboard)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Snowboarding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard:

LanguageWords
Frenchsnowboard, snowboarding, surf des neiges, planche à neige, planche de neige
GermanSnowboarden
Spanishsnowboard

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.

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