jujube

Other forms of jujube

plural

jujubes·

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 jujube

What does jujube mean?

jujube means "spiny tree having dark red edible fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jujube?

jujube has 2 syllables: ju-jube. The stress falls on "ju". In IPA it is /ˈdʒuˌdʒub/.

What is another word for jujube?

Close synonyms include jujube bush, Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, Ziziphus jujuba, Chinese date. 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 jujube a common word?

jujube is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.