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cobwebbed

adjective

cobwebbed is spelled C-O-B-W-E-B-B-E-D: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, cobwebbed means “Covered with cobwebs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cobwebbed?

Letters9: C-O-B-W-E-B-B-E-D
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cobwebbed?

Cobwebbed appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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).

Forms of cobwebbed

  • more cobwebbed comparative
  • most cobwebbed superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cobwebbed mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Covered with cobwebs

  2. 2

    Old or outdated.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cobwebbed come from?

From cobweb + -ed.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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