cobble

Other forms of cobble

plural

cobbles·

past tense

cobbled·

present participle

cobbling·

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 cobble

What does cobble mean?

cobble means "pave with cobblestones". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cobble?

cobble has 2 syllables: cob-ble. The stress falls on "cob". In IPA it is /ˈkɑbəl/.

What is another word for cobble?

Close synonyms include cobblestone, cobblestone, sett. 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 cobble a common word?

cobble 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.