soursop

Other forms of soursop

plural

soursops·

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 soursop

What does soursop mean?

soursop means "small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soursop?

soursop has 2 syllables: sour-sop. The stress falls on "sour".

What is another word for soursop?

Close synonyms include prickly custard apple, soursop tree, Annona muricata, guanabana. 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 soursop a common word?

soursop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.