steelyard
/ˈstiːljɑːɹd/noun
steelyard is spelled S-T-E-E-L-Y-A-R-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, steelyard means “A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of steelyard is steelyards.
How many letters and syllables are in steelyard?
| Letters | 9: S-T-E-E-L-Y-A-R-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 steelyard?
Steelyard appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 steelyard?
- US /ˈstiːljɑːɹd/
- US /ˈstiːljɚd/
- UK /ˈstiːljɑːd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-steelyard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of steelyard
- steelyards plural
- stilliard
- stilyard
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does steelyard mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
- 2
A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Steelyard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense steelyard balance:
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 steelyard come from?
From steel + yard (“enclosed area, rod”). The sense of “place” is a calque of Dutch staalhof or Middle Low German Stalhof (Modern Dutch staal (“steel”) + hof (“court, yard”)). The sense of “balance” is presumably from the sense of “place”, originally “steelyard beam”, mixed with additional sense of “rod” (hence “rod for weighing steel”), replacing earlier Latin statēra.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).