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say it: CHER-ee
cherry is a noun and adjective meaning "wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɛɹi/ — CHER-ee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
a red fruit with a single hard stone
a red the color of ripe cherries
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cherry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.