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lab

/læːb/noun, verb

lab is spelled L-A-B: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lab means “A laboratory” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lab is labs.

How many letters and syllables are in lab?

Letters3: L-A-B
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 lab?

Lab appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 lab?

  • /læːb/

Lab 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-lab.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with lab?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lab.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: bla, alb.

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 lab

  • labs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • labbing participle, present
  • labbed participle, past

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

What does lab mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialA laboratory.

  2. 2

    colloquialLaboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.

    I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

  3. 3

    A hands-on educational experience; a workshop.

  4. 4

    colloquialA Labrador retriever.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo practise experimentally outside of competitive play.

noun

as LAB
  1. 1

    Initialism of Lyman-alpha blob;.

  2. 2

    Initialism of lactic acid bacterium.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of linear alkylbenzene.

noun

as Lab
  1. 1

    informalDiminutive of Labrador, a breed of dog. (a form of Labrador)

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

Where does lab come from?

Clipping of laboratory.

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

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