cucumber

Other forms of cucumber

plural

cucumbers·

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 cucumber

What does cucumber mean?

cucumber means "a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cucumber?

cucumber has 3 syllables: cu-cum-ber. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /ˈkjukəmbɚ/.

What is another word for cucumber?

Close synonyms include cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus, cuke. 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 cucumber a common word?

cucumber 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.