cobs
/kɒbz/
"cobs" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cobs” is uncommon English (frequency #73,968 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,968
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cob
Corpus desk
Index EN-cobs · cobs · English
cobs · rank #73,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,968
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clop
Nearest frequency peer: clop (-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 “cobs”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chugs
chugs
26,036 corpus weight
- clearness
clearness
26,035 corpus weight
- clop
clop
26,034 corpus weight
- cobs
cobs
26,033 corpus weight
- commiserate
commiserate
26,031 corpus weight
- comorbidity
comorbidity
26,030 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cobs” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cobs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɒbz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cobs” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cobs is uncommon English at frequency #73,968 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɒbz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cob".
cobs has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cobs, spelled C-O-B-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cob
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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