cobbled
"cobbled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cobbled” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,925
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Laid with cobbles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cobbled · cobbled · English
cobbled · rank #36,925 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,925
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH communicable
Nearest frequency peer: communicable (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cobbled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- chaste
chaste
63,080 corpus weight
- Chucky
Chucky
63,079 corpus weight
- cobbled
cobbled
63,076 corpus weight
- communicable
communicable
63,075 corpus weight
- compatriot
compatriot
63,074 corpus weight
- Concorde
Concorde
63,072 corpus weight
What this shows “cobbled” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cobbled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cobbled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cobbled, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,925 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cobbled, with forms such as "cbobled", "ccobbled", and "cobbeld". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "cooled", "combed", "coiled", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cobbled, spelled C-O-B-B-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Laid with cobbles.
- 2Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way (as in "cobbled together").
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cobbled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They were the terror of old ladies travelling in omnibuses. Sometimes in the middle of a drive down one of the principal streets, Harry's black face gleamed through the windows of the omnibus, and, instead of entering by the door, he climbed in through the window, singing his wild melodies and his snatches of comic songs in cobbled English as he did so.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbobled
- ccobbled
- cobbeld
- cobblde
- cobbledd
- cobblled
- coblbed
- cobled
- ocbbled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cobbled - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cobbled", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).