cobia
noun
cobia is a noun meaning “A perciform marine fish of species Rachycentron canadum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-B-I-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cobia is cobias.
What does cobia mean?
noun
- 1
A perciform marine fish of species Rachycentron canadum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cobia?
Cobia has 3 syllables (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).
Forms of cobia
- cobias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cobia?
Cobia appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Cobia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Rachycentron canadum:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | beijupirá, bijupirá |
| Spanish | cobia, esmedregal, pejepalo, bonito negro |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cobia come from?
First use in 1873. Of unknown origin, possibly via Spanish cobia from a language of the Caribbean.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).