tomato

Other forms of tomato

plural

tomatoes

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 tomato

What does tomato mean?

tomato means "mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tomato?

tomato has 3 syllables: to-ma-to. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /təˈmeɪˌtoʊ/.

What is another word for tomato?

Close synonyms include love apple, tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculentum. 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 tomato a common word?

tomato 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 tomato?

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