grapefruit

Other forms of grapefruit

plural

grapefruits·

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 grapefruit

What does grapefruit mean?

grapefruit means "citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grapefruit?

grapefruit has 2 syllables: grape-fruit. The stress falls on "grape". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪpˌfɹut/.

What is another word for grapefruit?

Close synonyms include Citrus paradisi. 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 grapefruit a common word?

grapefruit 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 grapefruit?

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