melon

Other forms of melon

plural

melons·

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 melon

What does melon mean?

melon means "any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in melon?

melon has 2 syllables: mel-on. The stress falls on "mel". In IPA it is /ˈmɛlən/.

What is another word for melon?

Close synonyms include melon vine. 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 melon a common word?

melon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 melon?

3 words rhyme with melon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.