lob
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, lob sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 20bob, cob
What it means
- nounan easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
- nounthe act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
- verbpropel in a high arc
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l aa1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blob
- bob
- cob
- gob
- hobnob
- job
- knob
- mob
- rob
- slob
- snob
- sob
- swab
- throb
- blowjob
- cobb
- corncob
- glob
- heartthrob
- hob
- kebab
- thingamabob
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.