cantaloupe

Other forms of cantaloupe

plural

cantaloupes·

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 cantaloupe

What does cantaloupe mean?

cantaloupe means "a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cantaloupe?

cantaloupe has 3 syllables: can-ta-loupe. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkæntəˌloʊp/.

What is another word for cantaloupe?

Close synonyms include cantaloup, cantaloupe vine, cantaloup vine, Cucumis melo cantalupensis, cantaloup. 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 cantaloupe a common word?

cantaloupe is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cantaloupe?

4 words rhyme with cantaloupe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.