# apricot

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/ · frequency rank #29,539

## Definitions
1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
3. A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5. The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
6. A testicle.

## Etymology
Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.

## Common misspellings (10)
`apircot`, `appricot`, `aprciot`, `apriccot`, `apricott`, `apricto`, `aprioct`, `aprricot`, `arpicot`, `paricot`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/apricot