challis

1. 1.

   a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)

   Broaderfabric

Other forms of challis

plural

challises·

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.

Questions about challis

What does challis mean?

challis means "a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)".

How many syllables are in challis?

challis has 2 syllables: chal-lis. The stress falls on "chal". In IPA it is /ˈʃæli/.

Is challis a common word?

challis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.