drub
/dɹʌb/noun, verb
drub is spelled D-R-U-B: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, drub means “Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of drub is drubs.
How many letters and syllables are in drub?
| Letters | 4: D-R-U-B |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 46 million words; the 209,386th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is drub?
Drub appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
How do you pronounce drub?
- /dɹʌb/
- /dɹʊb/
Drub has one syllable (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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-drub.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with drub?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as drub.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: burd, brud.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of drub
- drubs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- drubbing participle, present
- drubbed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does drub mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
verb
- 1
To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
- 2
To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
- 3
To forcefully teach something.
- 4
To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Drub in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to beat with a stick:
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 drub come from?
From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *drōbī, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“turbid”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).