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Definition: Bobber |
BobberNoun1. A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any timber in a drive whose density is such that it floats only intermittently. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BobberSynonyms: bob (n), bobfloat (n), cork (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bobber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bobber" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bobber | 63 | bobber stop | 3 |
fishing bobber | 44 | bobber fishing slip | 3 |
bobber motorcycle | 13 | bobber rig slip | 3 |
slip bobber | 10 | blue bobber water | 2 |
bobber harley | 9 | bobber davidson harley | 2 |
bobber triumph | 6 | bobber flathead pic | 2 |
aluminum bobber fishing | 5 | bobber head | 2 |
bobber sportster | 5 | bobber shop | 2 |
bobber stops | 4 | bobber flathead | 2 |
bobber brain | 4 | bobber stopper | 2 |
bobber knots slip | 4 | bobber fishing trout | 2 |
bobber chopper | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bobber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbiujëse (Cork). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | плувка (float, swimmer). (various references) | |
Danish | dykker (brad, diver, frogman, helmet diver, wire nail with countersunk head). (various references) | |
Dutch | duiker (diver). (various references) | |
Finnish | rampapuu, pylkkäri, kekkapää, juoppopuu. (various references) | |
French | bois canard. (various references) | |
Greek | υποβρυχίως κινουμένη ξυλεία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | úszó (awash, bob, cork, fin, float, floating, floaty, natatorial, paddle, pontoon, quill, sludge, swimmer, swimming). (various references) | |
Italian | legno semigalleggiante, legname semi-galleggiante. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obberbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | madeira semi-flutuante. (various references) | |
Russian | поплавок (fish bobber, float, swimmer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plovak (ball cock, bob, float). (various references) | |
Spanish | semianadón, corcho (Bob, Cork, float). (various references) | |
Swedish | halvsjunket virke, flöte (float), dykare (diver, diving beetle, plunger). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рибалка, що ловить вугрів, поплавець (dobber, float, pontoon, swimmer), пліткар (blabber, buzzer, cackler, earwig, gossiper, novelist, peddler, pedlar, pimp, quidnunc, retailer, scandalmonger, tattler, tattletale, telltale, tittle tattle), дружок (bully). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bobber": bobberies, bobbers, bobbery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bobber": skibobber. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bobber": skibobbers. (additional references) | |
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"Bobber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babbar, Bebburn, boba, bobbet, bobbit, bobe, Bobekreo, Bobert, Bobet, boober, Bouberc, Bozberg, bubbe, bubbeh, bubber, nobber. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bobber" (pronounced bÄ"ber) |
| 3 | -Ä" b er | clobber, jobber, macabre, robber, slobber. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-b-e-o-r" | |
-2 letters: bore, robe. | |
-3 letters: bob, bro, ebb, obe, orb, ore, reb, rob, roe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-b-e-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bobbers, bobbery. | |
+3 letters: bobberies, hobnobber, skibobber. | |
+4 letters: absorbable, beribboned, cobwebbier, hobnobbers, skibobbers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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