watermelon

Other forms of watermelon

plural

watermelons·

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 watermelon

What does watermelon mean?

watermelon means "an African melon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watermelon?

watermelon has 4 syllables: wa-ter-mel-on. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌmɛlən/.

What is another word for watermelon?

Close synonyms include watermelon vine, Citrullus vulgaris. 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 watermelon a common word?

watermelon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 watermelon?

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