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cherry

/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/noun, adjective

cherry is spelled C-H-E-R-R-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cherry means “A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cherry is cherries.

How many letters and syllables are in cherry?

Letters6: C-H-E-R-R-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,309th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cherry?

Cherry appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,309th 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 cherry?

  • US /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
  • Australia /ˈt͡ʃeɹi/
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛɾe/

Cherry has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-cherry.ogg, En-us-cherry.ogg, En-au-cherry.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cherry?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cherry from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹi/):

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 cherry

  • cherries plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • cherrier comparative
  • more cherry comparative
  • cherriest superlative
  • most cherry superlative
  • cherrying participle, present
  • cherried participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cherry mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.

  2. 2

    Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.

  3. 3

    The wood of a cherry tree.

  4. 4

    Cherry red.

  5. 5

    The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.

  6. 6

    slangVirginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.

  7. 7

    A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.

  8. 8

    slangA red cricket ball.

adjective

  1. 1

    Containing or having the taste of cherries.

  2. 2

    Of a bright red color; cherry red.

  3. 3

    informalIn excellent condition; mint condition.

noun

as Cherry
  1. 1

    someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.

verb

  1. 1

    datedobsoleteTo redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.

  2. 2

    datedobsoleteTo cheer, to delight.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cherry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcerise, griotte (fruit), cerisier (tree), goût cerise (flavour)
GermanKirsche, Chriesi (fruit), Kirschbaum, Kirschenbaum, Chriesibaum (tree), Kirschenholz (wood)
Portuguesecereja (fruit), cerejeira (tree), cabaço (slang: virginity)
Spanishcereza, guinda (fruit), cerezo, guindo (tree)

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 cherry come from?

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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