eggplant

Other forms of eggplant

plural

eggplants·

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 eggplant

What does eggplant mean?

eggplant means "egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eggplant?

eggplant has 2 syllables: egg-plant. The stress falls on "egg". In IPA it is /ˈɛɡˌplænt/.

What is another word for eggplant?

Close synonyms include aubergine, mad apple, aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush. 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 eggplant a common word?

eggplant 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 eggplant?

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