hobnail

Questions about hobnail

What does hobnail mean?

hobnail means "a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hobnail?

hobnail has 2 syllables: hob-nail. The stress falls on "hob". In IPA it is /ˈhɑbˌneɪl/.

Is hobnail a common word?

hobnail 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.

What rhymes with hobnail?

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