spreadsheet

English

Etymology

From spread +‎ sheet. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When was the term first used?”)

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈspɹɛd.ʃiːt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/
Audio (Canada): (file)

Noun

spreadsheet (plural spreadsheets)

(computing) A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
- 1985 September 15, Erik Snadberg-Diment, “Number Crunching on the Macintosh”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
A document created with such an application.
Synonym: worksheet
- 2009, Fred Vallance-Jones, David McKie, Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Comprehensive Primer, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49:
  A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.
- 2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty‎^[2]:
  For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.
(dated) A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.

Translations

computer application

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: elektron cədvəl
Catalan: full de càlcul m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 試算表 / 试算表 (zh) (shìsuànbiǎo), 電子表格 / 电子表格 (diànzǐ biǎogé)
Czech: tabulkový procesor m
Danish: regneark n
Dutch: spreadsheet (nl) m or f or n, rekenblad (nl) n
Esperanto: kalkultabelo
Finnish: laskentataulukko (fi)
French: tableur (fr), chiffrier (fr) m (Canada)
German: Tabellenkalkulation (de) f, Tabellenkalkulationsprogramm n
Greek: λογιστικό φύλλο (el) n (logistikó fýllo), υπολογιστικό φύλλο (el) n (ypologistikó fýllo)
Hungarian: táblázatkezelő (hu)
Indonesian: lembar kerja, lembar bentang, lembar kalkulasi, lembatang sebar
Irish: scarbhileog f
Italian: foglio di calcolo m
Japanese: 表計算ソフト (hyōkeisan sofuto), スプレッドシート (ja) (supureddoshīto)
Korean: 스프레드시트 (seupeuredeusiteu)
Lithuanian: elektroninė skaičiuoklė f
Maori: ripanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regneark n
Polish: arkusz kalkulacyjny (pl) m
Portuguese: planilha (pt) f, folha de cálculo f
Romanian: tabel (ro) n, foaie de calcul f
Russian: электро́нная табли́ца f (elektrónnaja tablíca)
Serbo-Croatian: proračunska tablica f, unakrsna tabela f
Spanish: hoja de cálculo (es) f
Swedish: kalkylark (sv) n
Turkish: elektronik tablo
Turkmen: elektron tablisa
Ukrainian: табли́чний проце́сор m (tablýčnyj procésor), електро́нна табли́ця f (elektrónna tablýcja)
Walloon: tåvleu (wa) m
Welsh: taenlen f

document

Catalan: full de càlcul m
Dutch: spreadsheet (nl) m or f or n, rekenblad (nl) n
French: feuille de calcul (fr) f
German: Tabelle (de) f, Kalkulationstabelle f
Maori: ripanga
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: planilha (pt) f, folha de cálculo f
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: hoja de cálculo (es) f
Swedish: tabelldokument n
Ukrainian: електро́нна табли́ця f (elektrónna tablýcja)

sheet of paper

Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: laskentataulukko (fi)
French: tableur (fr) m
German: Tabelle (de) f, Kalkulationstabelle f
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 集計用紙 (しゅうけいようし, shuukeiyoushi)
Korean: 스프레드시트 (seupeuredeusiteu)
Maori: ripanga, ripakaute
Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: planilha (pt) f
Romanian: tabel (ro) n, foaie de calcul f
Russian: табли́ца (ru) f (tablíca)
Swedish: kalkylark (sv) n
Ukrainian: табли́ця f (tablýcja)

Verb

spreadsheet (third-person singular simple present spreadsheets, present participle spreadsheeting, simple past and past participle spreadsheeted)

(transitive) To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.
- 2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface‎^[3], Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
  If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.