coconut

Other forms of coconut

plural

coconuts·

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 coconut

What does coconut mean?

coconut means "the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coconut?

coconut has 3 syllables: co-co-nut. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊkəˌnʌt/.

What is another word for coconut?

Close synonyms include coconut meat, cocoanut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco. 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 coconut a common word?

coconut 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.

What rhymes with coconut?

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