onion

Other forms of onion

plural

onions·

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 onion

What does onion mean?

onion means "the bulb of an onion plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in onion?

onion has 2 syllables: on-ion. The stress falls on "on". In IPA it is /ˈʌnjən/.

What is another word for onion?

Close synonyms include onion plant, Allium cepa. 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 onion a common word?

onion 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.