acorn

1. 1.

   fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base

   Broaderfruit

   Part ofoak

   Partscupule

Other forms of acorn

plural

acorns·

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 acorn

What does acorn mean?

acorn means "fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base".

How many syllables are in acorn?

acorn has 2 syllables: a-corn. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈeɪkɔɹn/.

Is acorn a common word?

acorn is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.