Fruits That Start With A

6 fruits Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 6 fruits that start with A, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

Six fruits start with A. Apple is the easiest for young children, and avocado and apricot are close behind. Acai is a small dark purple palm berry from South America, and ackee is a red tropical fruit whose cooked yellow flesh is eaten.

Anjou is a variety of pear with green skin, which shows how some fruit names are really types of another fruit. That trick is handy in games: if the rules allow varieties, A gets a little easier. Apple and apricot also make good starter words for early spelling.

Fruits starting with A: 6
Best known: apple, avocado
Longest name: avocado

All fruits that start with A

#	Name	What it is
1	acai	small dark purple palm berry from South America
2	ackee	red tropical fruit whose cooked yellow flesh is eaten
3	anjou	a pear with firm flesh and a green skin
4	apple	fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
5	apricot	downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
6	avocado	a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed

Questions people ask

How many fruits start with A?

This list has 6 fruits starting with A, from well-known ones like apple, avocado, apricot to rarer kinds.

What fruits start with A?

Well-known examples are apple, avocado, apricot, acai, ackee.

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.

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