pomegranate

Other forms of pomegranate

plural

pomegranates·

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 pomegranate

What does pomegranate mean?

pomegranate means "shrub or small tree native to southwestern Asia having large red many-seeded fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pomegranate?

pomegranate has 4 syllables: po-me-gran-ate. The stress falls on "gran". In IPA it is /ˌpɑməˈɡɹænət/.

What is another word for pomegranate?

Close synonyms include pomegranate tree, Punica granatum. 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 pomegranate a common word?

pomegranate 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.

What rhymes with pomegranate?

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