coble
/ˈkɒbəl/
"coble" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coble” is uncommon English (frequency #94,690 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,690
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coble · coble · English
coble · rank #94,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,690
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Coan
Nearest frequency peer: Coan (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “coble”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clerestory
clerestory
5,316 corpus weight
- cloke
cloke
5,314 corpus weight
- Coan
Coan
5,312 corpus weight
- coble
coble
5,311 corpus weight
- cocooned
cocooned
5,310 corpus weight
- CofE
CofE
5,309 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coble” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coble |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒbəl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coble” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coble is uncommon English at frequency #94,690 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɒbəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.".
coble has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English coble, from the Welsh ceubal (“skiff”); ultimately from Latin caupulus. The correct English form is coble, spelled C-O-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1A small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coble appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
Etymology
From Middle English coble, from the Welsh ceubal (“skiff”); ultimately from Latin caupulus.
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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