cobweb

Other forms of cobweb

plural

cobwebs·

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 cobweb

What does cobweb mean?

cobweb means "a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cobweb?

cobweb has 2 syllables: cob-web. The stress falls on "cob". In IPA it is /ˈkɑbˌwɛb/.

What is another word for cobweb?

Close synonyms include gossamer. 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 cobweb a common word?

cobweb 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 cobweb?

2 words rhyme with cobweb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.