jocote

Other forms of jocote

plural

jocotes·

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 jocote

What does jocote mean?

jocote means "common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit".

How many syllables are in jocote?

jocote has 2 syllables and divides as jo-cote under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jocote?

Close synonyms include mombin, mombin tree, Spondias purpurea. 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 jocote a common word?

jocote 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.