fingerboard

Other forms of fingerboard

plural

fingerboards·

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 fingerboard

What does fingerboard mean?

fingerboard means "a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fingerboard?

fingerboard has 3 syllables: fin-ger-board. The stress falls on "fin". In IPA it is /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌbɔɹd/.

What is another word for fingerboard?

Close synonyms include fingerpost, piano keyboard, clavier. 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 fingerboard a common word?

fingerboard 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 fingerboard?

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