cobb
/kɒb/noun
cobb is spelled C-O-B-B: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cobb means “A sea-cob or gull” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cobb is cobbs.
How many letters and syllables are in cobb?
| Letters | 4: C-O-B-B |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,928th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cobb?
Cobb appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th 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).
How do you pronounce cobb?
- UK /kɒb/
Cobb 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).
Words people confuse with cobb
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: cob (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: cob.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cobb?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cobb from its last stressed vowel (/ɒb/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of cobb
- cobbs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cobb mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sea-cob or gull.
- 2
A pier made from cobblestones.
- 3
A hand-basket, especially made from wicker.
- 4
A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.
- 5
USA knock or blow.
- 6
Alternative form of cob (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cobb come from?
Variant spelling of cob.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).