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

Rory McIlroy played in the morning and had only one bogey in his round of 68 to move up the leaderboard, only for Berger to match his score. —Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026

Even though Brian Kelly eventually surpassed Holtz (and Knute Rockne) atop Notre Dame’s career wins leaderboard, Kelly was just 4-10 in those top-10 games, a far cry from the big stage performer that Holtz was. —Pete Sampson, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026

Can’t find your team or mini-league on the leaderboard? —Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026

While American frontier labs are battling each other across large language model leaderboards, China’s AI capabilities are showing up in physical ways—leaving screens and entering our daily lives. —Eric Schmidt, Time, 3 Mar. 2026

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