Every vegetable on this page is exactly 4 letters long — full profile for each.
Looking for 4-letter vegetables? Here are 7 vegetables that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
A feathery aromatic herb that defines Scandinavian, Eastern European, and Eastern Mediterranean cuisine — fresh leaves on cured fish, dried seeds in pickles and breads, and the foundation of Russian and Greek summer cooking.
A hardy leafy brassica with crinkly or flat dark green leaves, packed with vitamin K and tolerant of cold weather long after other greens have given up.
A long, thick-stemmed cousin of onion and garlic — milder, sweeter, and used as both vegetable and aromatic in soups, gratins, and the classic French *vichyssoise*.
A vigorously spreading herb family that flavors everything from Moroccan tea to British roast lamb to Vietnamese spring rolls — with hundreds of varieties of distinctive cooling intensity.
A long, ridged green pod with sticky seed-filled interior — central to gumbo, Indian curries, and Levantine stews, with the love-it-or-hate-it characteristic mucilage.
A wild garlic-onion forest vegetable native to eastern North America — a brief spring season, intense aromatic flavor, and a passionate Appalachian foraging tradition that's gone viral with chef-driven demand.
A starchy tropical corm eaten across Pacific, Asian, and African cuisines — fundamental to Hawaiian poi, West African fufu, Japanese satoimo, and Filipino ginataang halo-halo.
That's our current list of vegetables with exactly 4 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 4-letter vegetables that start with A.