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soursop

/ˈsaʊəɹˌsɒp/noun

soursop is spelled S-O-U-R-S-O-P. The wrong spelling people search most is soursap: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 90 of all searches for the word. Soursop is a noun meaning “A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata”. The plural of soursop is soursops.

How do you spell soursop?

Soursop is spelled S-O-U-R-S-O-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 90 of the searches for soursop in either form.

soursopthe right spelling24,020 searches a month
soursapa in place of o270 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 soursop mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.

  2. 2

    The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.

  3. 3

    Alternative form of soursob.

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

How do you pronounce soursop?

  • /ˈsaʊəɹˌsɒp/

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

Forms of soursop

  • soursops plural
  • sour-sop

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

How common is soursop?

Soursop appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).

Soursop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcorossolier (tree), corossol (fruit)
GermanGuanabana, Guanábana, Sauersack, Stachelannone (tree)
Spanishguanábano, yaca (tree), guanábana (fruit)
Portuguesegraviola (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 soursop come from?

From sour + sop.

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