cob

Other forms of cob

plural

cobs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cob

What does cob mean?

cob means "nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cob?

cob has 1 syllable: cob. In IPA it is /ˈkɑb/.

What is another word for cob?

Close synonyms include hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, black-backed gull, great black-backed gull. 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 cob a common word?

cob is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cob?

1 word rhymes with cob. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.