lobed
/loʊbd/adjective
lobed is an adjective meaning “Having lobes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-B-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does lobed mean?
adjective
- 1
Having lobes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lobed?
- US /loʊbd/
- UK /ləʊbd/
Lobed has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lobed.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is lobed?
Lobed appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lobed come from?
From lobe + -ed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).