clementine
Three syllables, and only the first one is doing anything a listener can hold on to. KLEM lands hard, the middle syllable collapses to almost nothing, and the ending can be said two ways depending on whether you learned the fruit or the song. Everything after the K is inherited from a French given name.
C-L-E-M-E-N-T-I-N-E · Citrus × clementina
It is a man's name with fruit attached. The clementine is credited to Frère Marie-Clément Rodier, who found it in the garden of his orphanage near Oran in Algeria around 1902, and the fruit carries his religious name almost unchanged. Spelling it means spelling Clément.
A small, easily peeled mandarin hybrid, usually seedless, grown across the Mediterranean and in Spain and Morocco for winter fruit. It ripens earlier than most mandarins, which is why it arrives in shops in November.