fibre
fi·bre/ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/noun
fibre is spelled F-I-B-R-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables (fi·bre). It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fibre means “A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fibre is fibres.
How many letters and syllables are in fibre?
| Letters | 5: F-I-B-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: fi·bre |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is fibre?
Fibre appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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 fibre?
- UK /ˈfaɪ.bə(ɹ)/
Fibre has 2 syllables, split fi·bre in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_fibre.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-fibre.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fibre?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fibre from its last stressed vowel (/aɪbə/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: brief, fiber.
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 fibre
- fibres plural
- fiber
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fibre mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
The microscope showed several different fibres stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- 2
Material in the form of fibres.
The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough fibre.
- 3
Dietary fibre.
Fresh vegetables are a good source of fibre.
- 4
Moral strength and resolve.
The ordeal was a test of everyone’s fibre.
- 5
The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
Under this map, any two values in the fibre of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
- 6
Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- 7
A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- 8
A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Fibre in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense single elongated piece of material:
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 fibre come from?
From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).