clapboard

Other forms of clapboard

plural

clapboards·

past tense

clapboarded·

present participle

clapboarding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about clapboard

What does clapboard mean?

clapboard means "a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clapboard?

clapboard has 2 syllables: clap-board. The stress falls on "clap". In IPA it is /ˈklæpˌbɔɹd/.

What is another word for clapboard?

Close synonyms include weatherboard, weatherboarding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clapboard a common word?

clapboard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with clapboard?

40 words rhyme with clapboard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.