pepper

1. 1.

   add pepper to

   “pepper the soup”

   Broaderzest

   cooking

2. 2.

   attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

   “pelt the speaker with questions”

   Synonymspelt

   Broaderattack

Other forms of pepper

plural

peppers·

past tense

pepperred·

present participle

pepperring·

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 pepper

What does pepper mean?

pepper means "climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pepper?

pepper has 2 syllables: pep-per. The stress falls on "pep". In IPA it is /ˈpɛpɚ/.

What is another word for pepper?

Close synonyms include common pepper, black pepper, white pepper, Madagascar pepper, Piper nigrum. 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 pepper a common word?

pepper 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.