apple

1. 1.

   fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

   Broaderedible fruitpome

   Narrowercrab appleeating applecooking apple
2. 2.

   native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

   Synonymsorchard apple treeMalus pumila

   Broaderapple tree

   Part ofMalus

Other forms of apple

plural

apples·

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 apple

What does apple mean?

apple means "fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apple?

apple has 2 syllables: ap-ple. The stress falls on "ap". In IPA it is /ˈæpəl/.

What is another word for apple?

Close synonyms include orchard apple tree, Malus pumila. 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 apple a common word?

apple is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.