roble

Other forms of roble

plural

robles·

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 roble

What does roble mean?

roble means "large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods; grown as a specimen in parks and large gardens". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roble?

roble has 2 syllables: ro-ble. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊbəl/.

What is another word for roble?

Close synonyms include Platymiscium trinitatis, California white oak, valley oak, valley white oak, Quercus lobata. 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 roble a common word?

roble 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.