Vegetables that start with S
28 vegetables, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of.
- 7 Plankton
- 17 Too Clever
- 4 Schooler
- 0 Rare
- 0 Deep Cut
- 0 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.
- Salad burnet
- Leaves sometimes used for salad.
- Scorzonera
- Long black salsify.
- Snap bean
- Tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections.
- Skirret
- An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root.
All 28 vegetables that start with S
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States. | Root vegetables | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Green onion, Spring onion | A young onion before the bulb has enlarged. | Onions & garlic | Plankton | 201K |
| Small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning. | Onions & garlic | Plankton | 201K | |
| Medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti. | Squash & pumpkins | Plankton | 165K | |
| Edible fruit of a squash plant. | Squash & pumpkins | Plankton | 165K | |
| Dark green leaves. | Leafy greens | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Soy, Soya, Soya bean | The most highly proteinaceous vegetable known. | Beans & peas | Plankton | 110K |
| also Common sorrel | Large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces. | Leafy greens | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Chard, Spinach beet, Leaf beet | Long succulent whitish stalks with large green leaves. | Leafy greens | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Sugar pea | Green peas with flat edible pods. | Beans & peas | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Jerusalem artichoke | Sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried as Saratoga chips. | Root vegetables | Too Clever | 50K |
| Green beans with strings that must be removed. | Beans & peas | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Variety of pea plant producing peas having crisp rounded edible pods. | Beans & peas | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Potato, White potato, Irish potato | An edible tuber native to South America. | Root vegetables | Too Clever | 33K |
| White-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar. | Root vegetables | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Green peas with edible pods that are very crisp and not flat. | Beans & peas | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong. | Tomatoes, peppers & eggplant | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Dried hulled pea. | Beans & peas | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer. | Squash & pumpkins | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Either of two long roots eaten cooked. | Root vegetables | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Head of soft crinkly leaves. | Cabbage family | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Scarlet runner bean, Runner bean, English runner bean | Long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths. | Beans & peas | Too Clever | 12K |
| Large mild and succulent onion. | Onions & garlic | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Rutabaga, Swedish turnip, Yellow turnip | The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food. | Cabbage family | Too Clever | 12K |
| An Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root. | Root vegetables | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| Tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections. | Beans & peas | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| Leaves sometimes used for salad. | Leafy greens | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Black salsify | Long black salsify. | Root vegetables | Schooler | 1.9K |
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Questions about vegetables that start with S
How many vegetables start with S?
RareList lists 28 vegetables that start with S. 7 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and none is rarer than the Schooler tier.
What are common vegetables that start with S?
The most searched vegetables starting with S are Sweet potato, Scallion, Shallot, Spaghetti squash and Squash.
Which vegetable that starts with S is the least searched?
Salad burnet, with about 1.9K US searches a month, which puts it in the Schooler tier. Leaves sometimes used for salad.
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.