potato

Other forms of potato

plural

potatoes

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 potato

What does potato mean?

potato means "an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potato?

potato has 3 syllables: po-ta-to. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /pəˈteɪˌtoʊ/.

What is another word for potato?

Close synonyms include white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater. 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 potato a common word?

potato 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 potato?

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