radish
ra·dish/ˈɹæd.ɪʃ/noun
radish is spelled R-A-D-I-S-H, 2 syllables: ra·dish. The wrong spelling people search most is raddish: about 1,030 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Radish is a noun meaning “A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an…”. The plural of radish is radishes.
How many letters and syllables are in radish?
| Letters | 6: R-A-D-I-S-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ra·dish |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 37,943rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, raddish, about 1,030 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 radish?
Radish is spelled R-A-D-I-S-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for radish 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 radish?
Radish appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd 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 radish?
- UK /ˈɹad.ɪʃ/
- US /ˈɹæd.ɪʃ/
- /ˈɹɛd.ɪʃ/
Radish has 2 syllables, split ra·dish in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-radish.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of radish
- radishes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does radish mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.
Many times they ſow divers ſeeds in a Bed together, as Radiſhes and Carrots, that by ſuch time as the Carrots come up, the Radiſhes may be gone. Upon beds newly ſet with Licorice they ſow Onions or Radiſh, or Lettice if their Licorice plant
- 2
The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.
- 3
Some other root plant of genus Raphanus or family Brassicaceae.
rat-tail radish (Raphanus caudatus); wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Radish in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plant Raphanus sativus var. sativus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | radis |
| German | Radieschen, Rettich |
| Portuguese | rabanete |
| Spanish | rábano |
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 radish come from?
From Middle English radiche, from Old English rǣdiċ, from Proto-West Germanic *rādik, borrowed from Latin rādīcem (“root of a plant; radish”); later influenced by Anglo-Norman radich and Middle French radice, borrowed from Italian radice, from the same Latin source. Doublet of radix.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).