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Eight Most Popular Berries

Can you name the most common types of berries, as measured by how often the word appeared in books in 2019?
Source: https://books.google.com/ngrams
Must have berry in the name!
Frequency per billion words
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Last updated: December 6, 2020
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First submittedOctober 28, 2013
Times taken78,997
Average score62.5%
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Frequency
Berry
2290
Strawberry
1080
Raspberry
752
Blueberry
628
Cranberry
Frequency
Berry
510
Blackberry
114
Elderberry
84
Gooseberry
49
Mulberry
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Level 78
Dec 29, 2013
No Halle Berry?
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Level 82
Dec 29, 2013
I did a google search for HalleBerrys and melons and got a ton of hits.
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Level 78
Jan 30, 2021
I think you spelled the last word wrong
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Level 69
Dec 29, 2013
I tried Chuck...
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Level 62
May 28, 2019
RIP Chuck Berry
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Level 70
Dec 7, 2020
It's Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin Berry!
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Level 81
Dec 7, 2021
+10 for Marvin
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Level 89
Dec 11, 2020
:-)
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Level 43
Dec 30, 2013
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
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Level 82
Dec 30, 2013
which is a terrible insult, I assume, because they are one of the least popular types of berries.
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Level 61
Jan 2, 2014
Perhaps, but they smell amazing. Make fantastic pies, too...
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Level 54
Jan 12, 2016
It means your mother was a whore and your father was a drunk lol
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Level 71
Feb 25, 2016
Elderberry wine is delicious!
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Level 84
May 10, 2017
Yep, thanks to Monty Python once again for getting me a higher score. Python = educational. Who'da thunk it?
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Level 68
Mar 14, 2014
Frankenberry!
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Level 90
Nov 17, 2014
And Booberry
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Level 67
Jul 7, 2014
And for Little Lulu fans, poison beebleberries.
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Level 57
Aug 4, 2015
British favorites - bilberries & whinberries.
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Level 55
Feb 1, 2021
.......and Mary Berry and Loganberry.

I even tried lingonberry, but didn't think of blueberry. That's not grown here much.

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Level 42
Apr 23, 2016
How did I almost miss cranberry? lol
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Level 75
Apr 23, 2016
I have a mulberry tree in my yard. Did I get that answer? Of course not.
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Level 84
May 10, 2017
LOL! Ain't that the way?
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Level 83
Apr 23, 2016
smurfberries should figure somewhere...
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Level 21
Apr 23, 2016
is it sad i tried that
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Level 37
Apr 23, 2016
Strawberries aren't a berry
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Level 31
Apr 23, 2016
Smurfberries? XD
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2016
no logan berries? wow.
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Level 68
Mar 5, 2017
I know. I have loganberries growing in my garden. Sheesh.
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Level 78
Apr 24, 2016
I thought goji berry would've been there, hhmmmm
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Level 10
Apr 26, 2016
I should've gotten Gooseberry...
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Level 10
Apr 26, 2016
Strawberries aren't berries. They're part of the rose family.
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Level 69
Sep 6, 2016
Neither are black- and raspberries, but everyone knows what this quiz *meant*…
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Level 60
May 7, 2022
Yes, but that doesn't justify it. In the description it should say 'most popular fruits containing 'berry' instead.
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Level 15
Jul 1, 2016
Dingleberry
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Level 28
Aug 14, 2016
I got every single one except blackberry
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Level 74
Oct 20, 2016
Member berries?
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2021
Yeah. I member
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Level 40
Feb 17, 2017
The banana is a bery right?
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Level 75
Jan 11, 2021
I think the definition here is like "little edible things with 'berry' in their name", which is fair enough I s'pose.
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Level 84
May 10, 2017
I think we're overdue for a "strawberries aren't berries" comment.
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Level 15
May 27, 2018
Its been over a year now. We need another "STRAWBERRIES AREN'T BERRIES OH MY GOODNESS FIX YOUR QUIZ DO YOUR RESEARCH QUIZ WOW" comment.
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Level 37
Mar 6, 2019
In scientific terminology, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower in which the outer layer of the ovary wall develops into an edible fleshy portion (pericarp).

Strawberries and raspberries aren't berries! Bananas, tomatoes, melons and chili peppers are!

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Level 66
Jun 2, 2020
That was right on cue
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Level 62
Jan 3, 2018
I did some googling for the berries I don't know much about, and it seems that there isn't much variation from the basic morphology of the blueberry and blackberry. Huckleberries look like black blueberries. Lingonberries look like red blueberries. Elderberries look like blue blueberries. And mulberries, boysenberries and marionberries all look like blackberries. Is there much difference in the taste in all of these?
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Level 85
Jun 26, 2020
Yes.
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Level 89
Jun 25, 2018
So Booberry Crunch isn't popular anymore?
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Level 76
Jun 25, 2018
In addition to the previously-noted sad lack of the halleberry, chuckberry, crunchberry, snozzberry, and dingleberry, I feel I must point out that this really should include the roddenberry as well.
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Level 56
Apr 24, 2020
YES and the yerrowberry.
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Level 44
Oct 30, 2018
Clearly too much of a Millenial for my own good, I tried acai and goji berries before cranberry :/ ...
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Level 66
Aug 18, 2019
Cranberry is a relative recent thing aswell. About 10 years ago you started hearing about it.
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Level 56
Apr 24, 2020
My mum (in south-east England) was making cranberry sauce every Christmas when I was a child. That would be, er, 40-odd years ago now.
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Level 66
Jun 2, 2020
Not saying it didn't exist or wasn't used before, and maybe even extremely common in other countries, but in my country (not uk or us) it seemed to be non existent, untill suddenly all sorts of "healthy" drinks showed up, short lived hype, though still available (bottled water with cranberry flavor and 7up tasting stuff but with cranberries etc)
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Level 57
Jan 11, 2021
this is still 100% relevant to me in 2021
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Level 79
Mar 6, 2019
Got strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, cranberry and elderberry but forgot raspberry...
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Level 63
Mar 6, 2019
What do the numbers represent? Quantities grown, sold?
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Level 79
Jan 30, 2021
See description
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Level 57
Mar 6, 2019
How did I forget lingonberry?? They grow all over my backyard
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Level 66
Mar 7, 2019
No delicious caperberries or barberries?
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Level 78
Jun 24, 2019
Tried 'Chuck' and 'Dingle' (sigh)
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Level 66
Jun 2, 2020
No glastonberry? ;)
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Level 79
Jan 30, 2021
You're probably thinking of the town Glastonbury
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Level 75
Jun 2, 2020
What about Traveling Wilberry?
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Level 67
Jun 26, 2020
100%
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Level 95
Dec 6, 2020
No Halle Berry?
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Level 87
Dec 6, 2020
I guess the huckleberry is only popular among the Finns.
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Level 72
Dec 6, 2020
And the elderberry in nursing homes, and the marionberry in Washington, DC.
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Level 76
Dec 7, 2020
What!? No Klingonberry?
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Level 68
Dec 9, 2020
No memberberries
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Level 61
Dec 11, 2020
I must get my hands on those healthy purpleberries!
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Level 61
Feb 11, 2021
No one's gonna say "bort"? Fine, I'll do it myself.
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Level 61
Feb 11, 2021
Bort.
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Level 77
Jan 11, 2021
People who jump in and say, "Strawberries aren't berries!" are silly. Thousands of years ago, people who ate berries made a connection between the similar attributes of small fruits that could be picked and eaten. They called them berries for centuries and centuries. Then, more recently, botanists gave an arbitrary "scientific" definition that differed from the definition that 99% of people had, which excluded the original bloody point of the word! Well no more! We must take our words back from the scientists and make them use their Latin terms so we can save our berries! Strawberries ARE berries! You want to say an eggplant and a banana are berries? Call them Bacas, the Latin word, and leave us plebeians our berries. Good day, "Dr." Scientist!
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Level ∞
Jan 11, 2021
Wow, quality rant, and you are of course 100% correct.
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Level 77
Nov 3, 2021
Gosh, the quizmaster responded. I feel like a teacher's pet.
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2021
Strawberries aren't straw!
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Level 56
Jan 11, 2021
tsk tsk tsk cant believe there isn't any oran berries or pecha berries or citrus berries
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Level 79
Jan 30, 2021
Got them all! This quiz also got me to level 69!
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Level 88
Jan 30, 2021
nice.
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Level 79
Jan 31, 2021
Thanques
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Level 65
Jan 30, 2021
At first I thought that time limit was way too generous, but then.......
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Level 68
Jan 30, 2021
Missed mulberry. I obviously didn't sing Pop goes the Weasel enough as a child...

I was surprised not to see boysenberry.

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Level 24
Jan 30, 2021
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Level 45
Jan 30, 2021
Where are the bruhberries?
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Level 82
Jan 30, 2021
My joke about Marionberries making great smoothies when mixed with ice, OJ, and a half cup of crack cocaine got deleted like 6 years after I made it? :( Had a lot of likes on that one. Too political for the current gestapo moderation policies? Even though the mayor has been out of office for 22 years and dead for the last 6? Or am I confused and thinking of a different quiz?
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Level 82
Jan 30, 2021
Seems as though Marionberries aren't even on the list, anymore. Did this quiz get cut in half? Thought I remembered more answers. I may still be confused.
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Level 59
Jan 30, 2021
No nightlock berries?
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Level 43
Jan 30, 2021
No Booberry? Gonna be a no from me.
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Level 65
Jan 31, 2021
For me, a couple of these answers were berry difficult to think of.
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Level 51
Feb 1, 2021
nice pun
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Level 67
Mar 4, 2021
Remembering jams only got me so far...
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Level 42
Apr 26, 2021
Jetpunk Berries
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Level 77
Jun 22, 2021
I'm your Huckleberry...
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Level 73
Oct 29, 2021
Ngrams is a great way to measure this.
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Level 39
Jan 3, 2022
aren't bannnas Berries
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Level 23
Feb 13, 2022
probs
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Level 63
Nov 23, 2022
This quiz asks for fruits with "berry" in the name
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Level 23
Feb 13, 2022
all except mulberry :(
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Level 75
Nov 23, 2022
If I published a book that consisted only of the word "huckleberry" repeated, I wonder how long it would have to be in order to earn that esteemed berry a place on this quiz.
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Level 45
Jan 30, 2023
You ever just forget that raspberries exist?
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Level 76
Mar 28, 2023
I like how half of these aren't actually berries.
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Level 76
May 20, 2023
why is the way of measuring the most popular berries the ones that are most mentioned in books? i would say 'most popular' implies ones that are most enjoyed or bought by people, so surely ranking them by weight produced, or amount spent on them, would make more sense?

i'm sure there was method in the decision since you're Quizmaster but would you mind elucidating?

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Level 45
Oct 21, 2023
dangleberry! lol