Thee → Tree: “Shall I compare tree to a summer’s day?”.Be → Tree: “I’m trying to tree more compassionate.”.Transexual → Tree-nsexual: “Yep, I’m a male to female treensexual.”.Transparency → Tree-nsparency: “An open and treensparent government is very important.”.Transformation → Tree-nsformation: “They underwent a radical treensformation.”.Traditional → Tree-ditional: “ Treeditional family values are outdated.”.Tribulations → Tree-bulations: “She went through many trials and treebulations when starting her business.”.Triathalon → Tree-athalon : “She trained hard for the tree-athalon.”.Trilogy → Tree-logy: “It’s the third book in the tree-logy.”.Trillion → Tree-llion: “Humans kill more than one tree-llion sea animals each year.”.Triumph → Tree-umph: “The allied countries were tree-umphant.”.Triangle → Tree-angle: “ Tree-angles have three sides.”.Dream → Tree-m: “I had the weirdest tree-m last night”.Treachery → Tree-chery: “The tree-chery of the man has no bounds.”.There are obviously a very large number of these sort of tree puns to be made – far too many to list here. *t re* → *-tree-*: Many tree puns can be created with this rule: If a word ends in “t” and the following word begins with the “ree” sound, then a tree pun can be made. Here are some examples of pairs of words that work – note that there are multiple ways of presenting “tree” in the pun, and some random examples are shown: might rely ( might tree lie or might-tree-ly), best resource ( best treesources or best tree sources), just read ( just treed), cannot recall ( canno treecal or cannot tree call), it reads ( it tree-ds), most refreshingly ( most treefreshingly or most tree freshingly), brilliant reasoning ( brilliant treesoning), must really ( must treeally), not remain ( not tree main), just return ( just tree turn), can’t refuse ( can tree fuse), but really ( but treeally), most remarkable ( mos-tree markable), not retaining ( no tree-taining).Tremendous → Tree-mendous: “I put in a tree-mendous amount of time on that project.”.S treet: “It bounced happily down the s treet.”.Trio → Tree-o: “The tree-o set off on another adventure.”.Terrestrial → Teres-tree-al: “The tree is a teres-tree-al organism.”.Streak → S-tree-k: “I’m on a winning s treek!” and “The s treeker was caught and arrested.”.Retrieve → Re-tree-ve: “Can you retreeve the lost amulet?”.Retreat → Re-tree-t: “A wilderness re treet.”.Pedestrian → Pedes-tree-an: “The pedes-tree-ans rushed.”.Patriarchy → Pa-tree-archy: “Most human societies have pa-tree-archal structures.”.Montreal → Mon-tree-al: “I’m from Mon-tree-al too!”.Intriguing → In-tree-guing: “The organism’s behaviour was in-tree-guing.”.Industrial → Indus-tree-al: “Be careful, that stuff’s industreeal strength.”.Illustrious → Illus-tree-ous: “His illustreeous father.”.Mainstream → Mains-tree-m: “Sorry if my puns are a bit mains-tree-m“.Treaty → Tree-ty: “Both countries signed the treety.”.Treatment → Tree-tment: “It’s a water treetment plant.”.Treason → Tree-son: “The dictator punished treeson severely.”.
If you’ve got a tree pun that we don’t, please share it with us in the comments! In the case of general rules, the asterisks sign (*) represents one or more letters. Three → Tree) or it may be a general rule from which multiple puns can be made. Here’s our ever-growing list of dreadful tree puns! Note that each item may represent either either a simple word-swap (e.g. You may also want to check out our leaf puns, nut puns or our Christmas tree puns entry.Īs usual, if you have a tree pun that we don’t, we’d love for you to share it with us! There’s a comments section at the bottom of the page. And if you’re looking for tree puns in images (memes, visual puns, jokes), then you’ll want to scroll towards the bottom of the page – there’s a section for those. There’s also a section for tree-related phrases, cliches and idioms after the puns list – these can be used for punning too. Then there are a bunch of different tree species (like acacia, fir, pine) which offer many opportunities for wordplay, and finally there are a bunch of tree-related characteristics and concepts (like leaf, bough, lumber, stump) which add some nice variety. Firstly, any word which has the “tree” sound in it (like pastry, forestry, Austria) is an automatic entry-level pun.
Here’s a Punpedia entry all about tree puns, and as it turns out there are a lot of them! Our list of tree puns is composed of 3 main categories.
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