maple

ma·ple/ˈmeɪp(ə)l/noun, adjective

maple is spelled M-A-P-L-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables (ma·ple). It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maple means “Any member of any species of genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate, five-lobed leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of maple is maples.

How many letters and syllables are in maple?

Letters	5: M-A-P-L-E
Syllables	2: ma·ple
In writing	7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Same letters	ample

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 maple?

Maple appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form in the list.

maple0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce maple?

UK /ˈmeɪpl̩/
UK [ˈmeɪp(ə)ɫ̩]
US /ˈmeɪp(ə)l/

As a noun (“Synonym of mapau (“any of several trees of New Zealand…”): /ˈmeɪpl̩/, /ˈmeɪp(ə)l/, /ˈmæɪpəl/.

Maple has 2 syllables, split ma·ple in writing.

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

What rhymes with maple?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as maple (/eɪpl/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ample.

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 maple

maples plural

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

What does maple mean?

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

noun

1
Any member of any species of genus Acer, characterized by (usually) palmate, five-lobed leaves and winged seeds, and often grown for syrup or wood
Russian maple
2
UKA small tree (Acer campestre), known as the common maple, field maple, or hedge maple, which has palmate leaves with five lobes and winged seeds, and is chiefly native to East Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America.
3
Often preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of the genus Acer; especially the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) native to North America which has brightly colored autumn foliage and is the primary source of maple syrup.
4
Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a tree of a genus other than Acer which has an appearance or wood similar to an Acer tree.
Queensland maple
5
Wood of an Acer tree, valued for its attractive appearance and hardness; also, similar wood from a tree of a genus other than Acer; (countable) a particular type of such wood.
This table is made of maple and also has some fruitwood inlays.
6
The light-brown color of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 3).
7
The flavor of maple syrup made from the sap of a maple tree, or an imitation of that flavor.
What flavour is your ice-cream? Mine’s maple–it’s delicious.
8
Short for maple pea (“the field pea (Pisum sativum subsp. arvense) which has brown, speckled seeds used dry rather than fresh; a seed of this plant”).
9
archaicSynonym of mapau (“any of several trees of New Zealand, especially in the genus Myrsine”).

adjective

1
Of the light-brown colour of the wood of a maple tree (etymology 1, noun sense 3).
2
Of the flavour of, or made with, maple syrup.