pepo
pe·po/ˈpi.poʊ/noun
pepo is a noun meaning “A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-P-O and has 2 syllables (pe·po), and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pepo is pepos.
What does pepo mean?
noun
- 1
A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
- 2
A plant producing such a fruit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pepo?
- UK /ˈpiː.pəʊ/
- US /ˈpi.poʊ/
Pepo has 2 syllables, split pe·po in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-pepo.ogg, Fixed_en-uk-pepo.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pepo
- pepos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pepo?
Pepo appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th 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).
Pepo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense kind of fruit:
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 pepo come from?
Borrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Doublet of pumpion; compare pumpkin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).