Vegetables That Start With S

18 vegetables Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 18 vegetables 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.

S is the richest vegetable letter, with eighteen entries. Spinach, squash and sweet potato are the familiar picks, and shallot and scallion add onion flavour.

There are clear groups here. Squash comes in spaghetti squash and summer squash. Beans and peas include snap bean, string bean, snow pea and soybean. Scallion and spring onion are the same young onion. Swede is another name for rutabaga, and sugar beet is grown for sugar. Salsify and sorrel are the rare finds for players who want an answer nobody else will think of.

Vegetables starting with S: 18
Best known: squash, spinach
Longest name: spaghetti squash

Best-known vegetables that start with S

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

squash
spinach
sweet potato
shallot
scallion
salsify

All vegetables that start with S

#	Name	What it is
1	salsify	long thin root vegetable with a mild taste
2	savoy cabbage	head of soft crinkly leaves
3	scallion	a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads
4	shallot	small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning
5	snap bean	tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
6	snow pea	green peas with flat edible pods
7	sorrel	large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
8	soybean	the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known
9	spaghetti squash	medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti
10	spinach	dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
11	spring onion	a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads
12	squash	edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
13	string bean	green beans with strings that must be removed
14	sugar beet	white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar
15	summer squash	any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer
16	swede	the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
17	sweet pepper	large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong; commonly used in salads
18	sweet potato	the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States

Short vegetables with S

swede

Questions people ask

How many vegetables start with S?

This list has 18 vegetables starting with S, from well-known ones like squash, spinach, sweet potato to rarer kinds.

What vegetables start with S?

Well-known examples are squash, spinach, sweet potato, shallot, scallion, salsify.

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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