How to spell board

Board is spelled B-O-A-R-D.

hear itboard/boʊrd/nounSounds

What it means: A long, flat piece of wood.

In a sentence: We need a board to build our treehouse.

Not to be confused with: bored, a different word.

Same family: boarding, boarded, onboard, embark, disembark. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb "board" originally came from the idea of stepping onto a ship’s wooden boards (the deck). Over time, it was extended to mean getting on any kind of vehicle, like trains, buses, and planes.

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