edamame
/ˌɛdəˈmɑːmeɪ/noun
edamame is a noun meaning “Fresh green soybeans boiled as a vegetable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-D-A-M-A-M-E, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of edamame is edamames.
What does edamame mean?
noun
- 1
Fresh green soybeans boiled as a vegetable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce edamame?
- /ˌɛdəˈmɑːmeɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-edamame.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of edamame
- edamames plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is edamame?
Edamame appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th 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).
Edamame in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense green soybeans:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | edamame |
| German | Edamame |
| Portuguese | edamame |
| Spanish | edamame, xpelón de soya, xpelón de soja |
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 edamame come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 枝(えだ)豆(まめ) (edamame, literally “stem beans”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).