lemon

Other forms of lemon

plural

lemons·

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 lemon

What does lemon mean?

lemon means "yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lemon?

lemon has 2 syllables: lem-on. The stress falls on "lem". In IPA it is /ˈlɛmən/.

What is another word for lemon?

Close synonyms include gamboge, lemon yellow, maize, lemon tree, Citrus limon. 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 lemon a common word?

lemon is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 lemon?

1 word rhymes with lemon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.