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umeboshi

/umeɪˈbəʊʃi/noun

umeboshi is spelled U-M-E-B-O-S-H-I: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, umeboshi means “Pickled ume fruits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of umeboshi is umeboshis.

How many letters and syllables are in umeboshi?

Letters8: U-M-E-B-O-S-H-I
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is umeboshi?

Umeboshi appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 umeboshi?

  • /umeɪˈbəʊʃi/
  • /umeɪˈbɒʃi/

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

Forms of umeboshi

  • umeboshis plural

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

What does umeboshi mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Pickled ume fruits.

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

Where does umeboshi come from?

From Japanese 梅干 (umeboshi, “dried plum”).

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

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