kumquat

Other forms of kumquat

plural

kumquats·

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 kumquat

What does kumquat mean?

kumquat means "any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kumquat?

kumquat has 2 syllables: kumq-uat. The stress falls on "kumq". In IPA it is /ˈkʌmkwɑt/.

What is another word for kumquat?

Close synonyms include cumquat, kumquat tree. 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 kumquat a common word?

kumquat 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.