hot pepper

Questions about hot pepper

What does hot pepper mean?

hot pepper means "plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hot pepper?

Close synonyms include tabasco pepper, tabasco plant, Capsicum frutescens. 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 hot pepper a common word?

hot pepper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.