bobber

Questions about bobber

What does bobber mean?

bobber means "a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line".

How many syllables are in bobber?

bobber has 2 syllables: bob-ber. The stress falls on "bob". In IPA it is /ˈbɑbɚ/.

What is another word for bobber?

Close synonyms include bob, cork, bobfloat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bobber a common word?

bobber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.