avocado
a·vo·ca·do/ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/noun, adjective
avocado is spelled A-V-O-C-A-D-O, 4 syllables: a·vo·ca·do. The wrong spelling people search most is avacado: about 4,490 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Avocado is a noun meaning “The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree”. The plural of avocado is avocados or avocadoes.
How many letters and syllables are in avocado?
| Letters | 7: A-V-O-C-A-D-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: a·vo·ca·do |
| In writing | 2.8 times per million words; the 16,005th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, avacado, about 4,490 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell avocado?
Avocado is spelled A-V-O-C-A-D-O. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for avocado in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is avocado?
Avocado appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce avocado?
- UK /ˌævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
- British /ˌavəˈkɑːdəw/
- US /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/
Avocado has 4 syllables, split a·vo·ca·do in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-avocado.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with avocado
Also written: avo.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with avocado?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as avocado from its last stressed vowel (/ɑdoʊ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of avocado
- avocados plural
- avocadoes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does avocado mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
- 2
The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
- 3
A dark chartreuse color, like the color of the skin of an avocado.
adjective
- 1
Of a dull yellowish-green colour.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate avocado?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of avocado: avo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Avocado in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | avocat , avocatier |
| German | Avocado , Avocadobaum |
| Portuguese | abacate , abacateiro |
| Spanish | aguacate, palta, cura, avocado, shunte, shute |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does avocado come from?
Borrowed from Latin American Spanish avocado, from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). Doublet of abacate. Compare aguacatillo, avocadillo. The first mention can be found in a catalogue of Jamaican plants in 1696.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).