gleba
noun
gleba is spelled G-L-E-B-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gleba means “The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gleba is glebae.
How many letters and syllables are in gleba?
| Letters | 5: G-L-E-B-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st 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 gleba?
Gleba 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).
How do you pronounce gleba?
Gleba has 2 syllables (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).
What rhymes with gleba?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as gleba.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: bagel, gable, gabel.
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 gleba
- glebae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does gleba mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does gleba come from?
Borrowed from Latin glēba (“lump, mass”). Doublet of glebe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).