weatherboard

Other forms of weatherboard

plural

weatherboards·

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 weatherboard

What does weatherboard mean?

weatherboard 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 weatherboard?

weatherboard has 5 syllables: we-a-ther-bo-ard. The stress falls on "ther".

What is another word for weatherboard?

Close synonyms include clapboard, weatherboarding, windward side, weather side. 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 weatherboard a common word?

weatherboard 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.