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stableford

noun

stableford is spelled S-T-A-B-L-E-F-O-R-D: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stableford means “Alternative letter-case form of Stableford” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stableford is stablefords.

How many letters and syllables are in stableford?

Letters10: S-T-A-B-L-E-F-O-R-D
In writingabout once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th 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 stableford?

Stableford appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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 stableford

  • stablefords plural

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

What does stableford mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Stableford.

noun

as Stableford
  1. 1

    A scoring system in the sport of golf that involves scoring points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole; (by extension) a game played according to this system.

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

Stableford in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense scoring system in golf:

LanguageWords
Frenchstableford

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 stableford come from?

Named after its inventor, Frank Stableford (1870–1959).

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

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