Fruits That Start With S

13 fruits Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 13 fruits that start with S, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

With thirteen fruits, S ties with P near the top of the alphabet. Strawberry is the clear favourite for children, and star fruit gets its name from the star shape you see when it is sliced.

Many S names are built from a describing word plus a familiar fruit: sweet orange, sour orange, sweet cherry and sour cherry. Satsuma and sultana are smaller everyday picks. For rare answers, try sapodilla with its malty flesh, soursop with its spiky green skin, saskatoon berries, or sloe, a small sour purple fruit.

Fruits starting with S: 13
Best known: strawberry, star fruit
Longest name: sweet orange

Best-known fruits that start with S

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

strawberry
star fruit
sapodilla
soursop

All fruits that start with S

#	Name	What it is
1	sapodilla	brown tropical fruit with sweet malty flesh
2	saskatoon	edible purple or red berries
3	satsuma	medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin
4	sloe	small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
5	sour cherry	acid cherries used for pies and preserves
6	sour orange	highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
7	soursop	spiky green tropical fruit with creamy tangy white flesh
8	star fruit	deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert
9	strawberry	sweet fleshy red fruit
10	sugar apple	sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds
11	sultana	pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine
12	sweet cherry	any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
13	sweet orange	orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin

Short fruits with S

sloe

Questions people ask

How many fruits start with S?

This list has 13 fruits starting with S, from well-known ones like strawberry, star fruit, sapodilla to rarer kinds.

What fruits start with S?

Well-known examples are strawberry, star fruit, sapodilla, soursop.

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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