cranberry

Other forms of cranberry

plural

cranberries·

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 cranberry

What does cranberry mean?

cranberry means "any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cranberry?

cranberry has 3 syllables: cran-ber-ry. The stress falls on "cran". In IPA it is /ˈkɹænˌbɛɹi/.

Is cranberry a common word?

cranberry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 cranberry?

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