I saw an old and hollow pecan tree that had some bees flying around it.
Source: tatoeba (8310274)
Pecan
//piːˈkɑːn//
Synonyms for "pecan" (8 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (4)
Noun(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesdbpedia genus
1 entriesderived
6 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
68 translations across 29 languages.
Alabama
1 entries- ochahobaski noun (nut)
Arabic
3 entries- بَقَّان noun (tree)
- بَقَّان noun (nut)
- بِيكَان noun (nut)
Catalan
2 entries- pacana noun (nut)
- pacaner noun (tree)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏐᎯ ᎠᏂᏅᎯᏓ noun (nut)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 碧根果 noun (nut)
- 美國山核桃 /美国山核桃 noun (nut)
Danish
1 entries- pekannød noun (nut)
Dutch
1 entries- pecannoot noun (nut)
Esperanto
1 entries- pekano noun (nut)
Finnish
2 entries- pekaanipähkinä noun (nut)
- pekaanipähkinäpuu noun (tree)
French
3 entries- noix de pécan noun (nut)
- pacane noun (nut)
- pacanier noun (tree)
German
2 entries- Pekannuss noun (nut)
- Pekannussbaum noun (tree)
Greek
1 entries- πεκάν noun (nut)
Icelandic
1 entries- pekanhneta noun (nut)
Irish
2 entries- cnó peacáin noun (nut)
- crann cnó peacáin noun (tree)
Japanese
3 entries- ピーカンナッツ noun (nut)
- ペカン noun (tree)
- ペカンナッツ noun (nut)
Korean
2 entries- 피칸 noun (tree)
- 피칸 noun (nut)
Norwegian
1 entries- pecannøtt noun (nut)
Polish
3 entries- orzesznik jadalny noun (tree)
- pekan noun (tree)
- pekan noun (nut)
Portuguese
2 entries- nogueira-pecã noun (tree)
- pecã noun (nut)
Russian
2 entries- пека́н noun (tree)
- пека́н noun (nut)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pekan noun (tree)
- pekan noun (nut)
- пекан noun (tree)
- пекан noun (nut)
Slovene
4 entries- pekan noun (tree)
- pekan noun (nut)
- pekanov oreh noun (tree)
- pekanov oreh noun (nut)
Spanish
4 entries- nuez de la isla noun (nut)
- nuez encarcelada noun (nut)
- nuez pecana noun (nut)
- pacana noun (tree)
Swahili
2 entries- mpekani noun (tree)
- pekani noun (nut)
Swedish
2 entries- pekanhickory noun (tree)
- pekannöt noun (nut)
Turkish
2 entries- pekan ağacı noun (tree)
- pekan cevizi noun (nut)
Ukrainian
3 entries- горі́х-пека́н noun (tree)
- горі́х-пека́н noun (nut)
- оли́вковий горі́х noun (tree)
Unami
1 entries- kansèm noun (nut)
Welsh
2 entries- coeden becan noun (tree)
- pecan noun (nut)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
"Pecan" is one of those tricky words that gets pronounced in several different ways.
Source: tatoeba (9496310)
Jeff Worn, the Vice President of the South Georgia Pecan Company in Valdosta, Georgia, one of the largest pecan producers in the world, says the Chinese bought about 31 to 36 million kilograms last year, a third of the entire U.S. pecan crop last year. He says that has raised the price of pecans precipitously.
Source: tatoeba (12233850)
Both peoples lived off deer, small game, rodents, and even insects, but their main food sources were probably plants such as prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and pecan.
Source: tatoeba (12369611)
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.