leaderboard

noun

lead·​er·​board ˈlē-dər-ˌbȯrd 

: a large board for displaying the ranking of the leaders in a competitive event (such as a golf tournament)

Examples of leaderboard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Gemini 3, which debuted on November 18, now sits at the top of benchmark leaderboards for tasks like text generation, image editing, image processing and turning text into images, putting it ahead of rivals like ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok and Anthropic’s Claude in those categories. —Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025

Make enough good trades to find your name on the leaderboard and check out what the top customers are trading. —Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025

Listing literally dozens of TV segments, newspaper and online articles that rubbed the White House the wrong way, the site also features a Hall of Shame quartet and leaderboard. —Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2025

At the end of the night, at the top of the leaderboard were Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy with a score of 90/90, Robert Irwin and Witney Carson with 89/90 and Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa, who got an 89/90 as well. —Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 26 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for leaderboard

• checkerboard
• clavichord
• fiberboard
• fibreboard
• fingerboard
• harpsichord
• motherboard
• notochord
• overboard
• overlord
• paperboard
• plasterboard