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habanero

/ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnɛɹoʊ/noun

habanero is spelled H-A-B-A-N-E-R-O: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, habanero means “An intensely spicy chili pepper, Capsicum chinense” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of habanero is habaneros.

How many letters and syllables are in habanero?

Letters8: H-A-B-A-N-E-R-O
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is habanero?

Habanero appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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 habanero?

  • UK /ˌ(h)ɑːbəˈnɛɹəʊ/
  • US /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnɛɹoʊ/
  • /ˌ(h)ɑbəˈnjɛɹoʊ/

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

What rhymes with habanero?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as habanero from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹoʊ/):

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 habanero

  • habaneros plural
  • habañero hypercorrect

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

What does habanero mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An intensely spicy chili pepper, Capsicum chinense.

noun

as Habanero
  1. 1

    A person from Havana, Cuba.

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

Where does habanero come from?

Borrowed from Spanish habanero.

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

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