snowboarder
/ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹdɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who snowboards.
Example Sentences
- "Four years ago, the snowboarder Travis Rice was riding in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains when he accidentally invented the double cork, one of the more progressive and talked-about tricks in snowboarding recently. […] The same is true in freeskiing, in which skiers pull tricks on some of the same terrain as snowboarders."
- "The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest."
- "To Enni Rukajarvi, a Finnish snowboarder, the temperatures were not a problem — it was warmer than it often is at home, she pointed out — but the wind was tricky."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz Proto-West Germanic *snaiw Old English snāw Middle English snow English snow Proto-Germanic *burdą Proto-West Germanic *bord Old English bord Middle English bord English board English snowboard Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English snowboarder From snowboard + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹdɚ/
- British English: /ˈsnəʊˌbɔːdə/