How to say "apple" in Japanese

• りんごCommon
  nounThe word for the fruit itself, as when talking about eating, buying, or growing apples. It is usually written in kana alone.
  これらのりんごは料理りょうり用ようにもってこいだ。↗

  These apples are good cookers.
• アップルCommon
  nounThe katakana loanword. It is seldom the word you want for the fruit itself; it appears chiefly in product and company names and similar borrowed uses. For the fruit, りんご is the natural choice.

Both are common words, but 「りんご」 is the word for the fruit itself — the apple you eat or buy — while 「アップル」, the katakana loanword, appears chiefly in names and borrowed expressions rather than for the fruit.

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• りんごapple (fruit)
• アップルapple
• アップルApple
• せいようりんごapple (Malus domestica)