bear fruit
"bear-fruit" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bear fruit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bear-fruit · bear fruit · English
bear fruit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bear fruit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bear fruit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bear fruit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bear fruit in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is bear fruit, spelled B-E-A-R- -F-R-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit.
- 2To produce good results; to yield benefits; to succeed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bear fruit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.
Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.