splashboard

Other forms of splashboard

plural

splashboards·

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 splashboard

What does splashboard mean?

splashboard means "protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in splashboard?

splashboard has 3 syllables: splash-bo-ard. The stress falls on "splash".

What is another word for splashboard?

Close synonyms include washboard, splasher, dashboard. 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 splashboard a common word?

splashboard 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.