pomegranate

po·me·gra·nate/ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/noun, adjective

pomegranate is spelled P-O-M-E-G-R-A-N-A-T-E, 4 syllables: po·me·gra·nate. The wrong spelling people search most is pomegranite: about 590 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Pomegranate is a noun meaning “The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many…”. The plural of pomegranate is pomegranates.

How do you spell pomegranate?

Pomegranate is spelled P-O-M-E-G-R-A-N-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for pomegranate in either form.

pomegranatethe right spelling17,630 searches a month

pomegranitei in place of a590 searches a month

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.

What does pomegranate mean?

noun

1
The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
2
The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
3
A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
4
AustraliacolloquialderogatoryobsoleteA person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.

adjective

1
Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.

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

How do you pronounce pomegranate?

UK /ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
US /ˈpɑmɪˌɡɹænɪt/
US /ˈpɑməˌɡɹænət/

Pomegranate has 4 syllables, split po·me·gra·nate in writing.

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

Forms of pomegranate

pomegranates plural
more pomegranate comparative
most pomegranate superlative

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

How common is pomegranate?

Pomegranate appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th most frequent word form in the list.

pomegranate0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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).

Pomegranate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	grenade (fruit of the Punica granatum), grenadier (Punica granatum shrub or small tree)
German	Granatapfel, Grenadine (fruit of the Punica granatum)
Portuguese	romã (fruit of the Punica granatum), romãzeira, romeira (Punica granatum shrub or small tree)
Spanish	granada (fruit of the Punica granatum), granado (Punica granatum shrub or small tree)

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.