cherry-red

Questions about cherry-red

What does cherry-red mean?

cherry-red means "of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies".

How many syllables are in cherry-red?

cherry-red has 2 syllables and divides as cher-ry-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cherry-red?

Close synonyms include red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine. 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 cherry-red a common word?

cherry-red is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.