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soundboard

noun

soundboard is spelled S-O-U-N-D-B-O-A-R-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, soundboard means “A wide, flat board placed within, or forming part of the body of, a musical instrument in order to improve vibrations and increase volume” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of soundboard is soundboards.

How many letters and syllables are in soundboard?

Letters10: S-O-U-N-D-B-O-A-R-D
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th 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 soundboard?

Soundboard appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th 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).

Forms of soundboard

  • soundboards plural

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

What does soundboard mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A wide, flat board placed within, or forming part of the body of, a musical instrument in order to improve vibrations and increase volume.

  2. 2

    A mixing console used to combine and blend different audio sources to a single output.

  3. 3

    A sounding board.

  4. 4

    A control panel offering playback of various sound effects.

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

Soundboard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense A mixing console:

LanguageWords
Frenchtable de mixage, console de mixage

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 soundboard come from?

From sound + board.

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

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