Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

web

/wɛb/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English

Syllables
web
IPA
/wɛb/
8
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

noun

The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

noun

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

noun

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

noun

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

noun

Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

American usage; Dated

noun

A latticed or woven structure.

noun

A latticed or woven structure.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-West Germanic *wabi, from Proto-Germanic *wabją (“web”), from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), North Frisian wääb (“web”), Saterland Frisian Wäb (“web”), West Frisian and Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”); also Cornish goghi (“wasps”), Irish foich, foiche, puch (“wasp”), Welsh gwchi (“drone”), Latin vespa (“wasp”), Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ, “web”), ὑφαίνω (huphaínō, “to weave”) (whence Greek ανυφαίνω (anyfaíno), υφαίνω (yfaíno, “to weave”)), Albanian vej (“to weave”), Latvian lapsene (“wasp”), Lithuanian vapsvà (“wasp”), Old Prussian wobse (“wasp”), Belarusian аса́ (asá, “wasp”), Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian оса́ (osá, “wasp”), Czech vosa (“wasp”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene osa (“wasp”), Serbo-Croatian о̀са, òsa (“wasp”), Armenian մոզ (moz, “a kind of fly that bites horses and cattle”), Northern Kurdish moz (“hornet; wasp”), Persian بافتن (bâftan, “to weave”), Tocharian A wäp- (“to weave”), Tocharian B wāp- (“to weave”), Sanskrit उभ्नाति (ubhnāti, “to hurt, kill; to cover; fill”).

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Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

webs (plural) the web (canonical) webs (present, singular) webbing (participle, present) webbed (participle, past) webbed (past)

Derived Forms

crankweb elseweb foodweb Geoweb haploweb hyperweb innerweb microweb nanoweb outerweb rebracketing unweb

Phrases

break the web cosmic web dark web deep-web deep web funnel web funnel-web funnel-web spider

Frequently Paired Words

head foot

Synonyms

cobweb spiderweb intrigue webbing yarn way pin and web web and pin

Homonyms

web webb

Rhymes With

webb jeb eb deb ebb celeb hebb greb streb tebbe world wide web feb

Questions

How do you pronounce web?
The recorded pronunciation is /wɛb/.
What does web mean?
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
Where does web come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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