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say it: chad
chad is a noun meaning "a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape". It is pronounced /ˈtʃæd/ — chad. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960
a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.