Fruits That Start With Every Letter
Here are fruits that start with every letter from A to Z: 122 in all, with examples for each letter and a full page for every letter that has enough of them.
The full list holds 122 fruits across the alphabet. B is the richest letter with fourteen, followed closely by P and S with thirteen each, then C with ten.
Some letters are tough. V and Z have no fruit at all here, while E, I, Q, U and X have just one each: elderberry, ice cream bean, quince, ume and ximenia. Those single answers are worth learning for any game that asks for a fruit for every letter. Easy anchors for children include apple, banana, cherry, grape and mango.
- Fruits listed
- 122
- Most common first letter
- B
- Letters with none
- V, Z
Fruits by letter
| Letter | How many | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| A | 6 | apple, avocado, apricot, acai, ackee |
| B | 14 | banana, blackberry, blueberry, blackcurrant, boysenberry |
| C | 10 | cherry, coconut, cranberry, clementine, cantaloupe |
| D | 5 | date, durian, dragon fruit, damson, dewberry |
| E | 1 | elderberry |
| F | 3 | fig, feijoa, fox grape |
| G | 5 | grape, grapefruit, guava, gooseberry, goji berry |
| H | 4 | honeydew, huckleberry, hog plum, hackberry |
| I | 1 | ice cream bean |
| J | 3 | jackfruit, jabuticaba, jujube |
| K | 5 | kiwi, kumquat, kiwano, key lime, kai apple |
| L | 6 | lemon, lime, lychee, longan, loquat |
| M | 9 | mango, melon, mulberry, medlar, mandarin |
| N | 5 | nectarine, noni, native peach, natal plum, navel orange |
| O | 2 | orange, olive |
| P | 13 | peach, pineapple, plum, pear, prune |
| Q | 1 | quince |
| R | 4 | raspberry, raisin, rambutan, rose apple |
| S | 13 | strawberry, star fruit, sapodilla, soursop, sugar apple |
| T | 4 | tangerine, tangelo, temple orange, tamarind |
| U | 1 | ume |
| V | 0 | No common fruits start with V |
| W | 4 | watermelon, water lemon, wild plum, winter melon |
| X | 1 | ximenia |
| Y | 2 | yellow watermelon, yuzu |
| Z | 0 | No common fruits start with Z |
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Questions people ask
Which letter do the most fruits start with?
B, with 14 on this site's list.
Are there fruits for every letter?
Not in this list. No common fruits start with V, Z.
Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.