crabapple

Other forms of crabapple

plural

crabapples·

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 crabapple

What does crabapple mean?

crabapple means "any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crabapple?

crabapple has 3 syllables: cra-bap-ple. The stress falls on "cra".

What is another word for crabapple?

Close synonyms include crab apple, cultivated crab apple, wild apple, crab apple, crab apple. 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 crabapple a common word?

crabapple 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.