pineapple
pine·app·le/ˈpaɪnəpəl/noun, interjection
pineapple is spelled P-I-N-E-A-P-P-L-E, 3 syllables: pine·app·le. The wrong spelling people search most is pinapple: about 1,040 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Pineapple is a noun meaning “A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed…”. The plural of pineapple is pineapples.
How many letters and syllables are in pineapple?
| Letters | 9: P-I-N-E-A-P-P-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pine·app·le |
| In writing | 3.8 times per million words; the 13,321st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, pinapple, about 1,040 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell pineapple?
Pineapple is spelled P-I-N-E-A-P-P-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for pineapple in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is pineapple?
Pineapple appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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 pineapple?
- /ˈpaɪnˌæpəl/
- US /ˈpaɪnəpəl/
- US /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/
Pineapple has 3 syllables, split pine·app·le in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-pineapple.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pineapple
- pineapples plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pineapple mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
- 2
The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
- 3
The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
- 4
slangAn Australian fifty dollar note.
- 5
A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
- 6
A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
- 7
obsoleteA pinecone; the cone of the fir.
- 8
slangA hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)
interjection
- 1
A common safeword.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pineapple in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ananas |
| German | Ananas , Handgranate |
| Portuguese | ananás, abacaxi |
| Spanish | piña, ananás, ananá |
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 pineapple come from?
From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnapplu. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel (“pinecone", formerly also "pineapple”), Afrikaans pynappel (“pineapple”), Middle Low German pinappel, Old High German pīnapful, Middle High German pīnaphel, and early Modern German pinapfel – all in the sense of “pine cone”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).