cobbler
/ˈkɒblə/
"cobbler" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cobbler” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,078
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cobbler · cobbler · English
cobbler · rank #36,078 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,078
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cognizant
Nearest frequency peer: cognizant (+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 “cobbler”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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chlamydia
63,928 corpus weight
- chugging
chugging
63,927 corpus weight
- cobbler
cobbler
63,923 corpus weight
- cognizant
cognizant
63,922 corpus weight
- collared
collared
63,921 corpus weight
- conceit
conceit
63,917 corpus weight
What this shows “cobbler” 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 | cobbler |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒblə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cobbler”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around cobbler (IPA /ˈkɒblə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,078 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for cobbler, with forms such as "cbobler", "ccobbler", and "cobbelr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cooler", "coupler", "cobble", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) … The correct English form is cobbler, spelled C-O-B-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
- 2A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
- 3A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cobbler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.
[W]hat would they think of a French cobler cutting ſhoes for ſeveral of his fellow-ſubjects out of an old apple-tree?
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler. Sense 2 (“sheep left to the end to be sheared”) is a pun on cobbler’s last (“tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes”); while sense 3 (“clumsy workman”) is derived from cobble + -er: see above.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cbobler
- ccobbler
- cobbelr
- cobblerr
- cobbller
- cobblre
- coblber
- cobler
- ocbbler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cobbler - 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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