red pepper

Questions about red pepper

What does red pepper mean?

red pepper means "ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red pepper?

Close synonyms include cayenne, cayenne pepper, tabasco. 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 red pepper a common word?

red pepper 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.