Fruits that start with C
28 fruits, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 3 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 5 Plankton
- 12 Too Clever
- 8 Schooler
- 2 Rare
- 0 Deep Cut
- 1 One in a Krillion
Rare but real
Names that are easy to defend and hard to guess. Good when you need an answer no one else will have.
- Citrange
- More aromatic and acid tasting than oranges.
- Canistel
- Ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies.
- Chinese gooseberry
- Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh.
- Cooking apple
- An apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc.
- Casaba
- Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
- Cling
- Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit.
All 28 fruits that start with C
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
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| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A red fruit with a single hard stone. | Plums & stone fruit | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Cantaloup | The fruit of a cantaloup vine. | Melons | Plankton | 201K |
| The edible white meat of a coconut. | Other fruits | Plankton | 201K | |
| Very tart red berry used for sauce or juice. | Berries | Plankton | 165K | |
| A mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds. | Citrus | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Crabapple | Small sour apple. | Apples | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Cherimolla | Large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp. | Other fruits | Too Clever | 50K |
| Large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind. | Citrus | Too Clever | 50K | |
| also Citrous fruit | Any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp. | Citrus | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Lingonberry, Mountain cranberry, Lowbush cranberry | Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller. | Berries | Too Clever | 50K |
| The fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp. | Other fruits | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Star fruit | Deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit. | Other fruits | Too Clever | 27K |
| Other fruits | Too Clever | 27K | ||
| cultivar | Slipskin grape. | Grapes | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Jujube, Chinese datecultivar | Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees. | Plums & stone fruit | Too Clever | 22K |
| Other fruits | Too Clever | 18K | ||
| also Cocoa plum, Icaco | Plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves. | Other fruits | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Mexican black cherrycultivar | Mexican black cherry. | Plums & stone fruit | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Clingstone | Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. | Other fruits | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Casaba melon | Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh. | Melons | Schooler | 6.6K |
| An apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc. | Apples | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Kiwi, Kiwi fruit | Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh. | Other fruits | Schooler | 4.4K |
| cultivar | Large apple with a red skin. | Apples | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Eggfruit | Ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies. | Other fruits | Schooler | 2.9K |
| cultivar | Slipskin grape. | Grapes | Schooler | 1.9K |
| cultivar | A yellow Pippin with distinctive flavor. | Apples | Rare | 720 |
| More aromatic and acid tasting than oranges. | Citrus | Rare | 210 | |
| Any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams. | Berries | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about fruits that start with C
How many fruits start with C?
RareList lists 28 fruits that start with C, including 6 cultivars. 5 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 3 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common fruits that start with C?
The most searched fruits starting with C are Cherry, Cantaloupe, Coconut, Cranberry and Clementine.
What is a rare fruit that starts with C?
Citrange is one of the rarest. More aromatic and acid tasting than oranges. It gets about 210 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Canistel, Chinese gooseberry and Cooking apple.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
Each name is ranked by its average monthly Google searches in the United States. Fewer searches means fewer people are likely to think of it, which is what matters in games that reward unique answers. See how we rank for the details.