pear
/pɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
noun
A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
noun
Choke pear (a torture device).
noun
noun
A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
noun
An indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand.
name
An endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia.
Etymology
Etymology tree Vulgar Latin pirabor. Proto-West Germanic *peru Old English pere Middle English pere English pear From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר (bar, “pear”), French poire (“pear”).
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɛɹ/
- British English: /pɛə/