chicha

Other forms of chicha

plural

chichas·

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 chicha

What does chicha mean?

chicha means "an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water".

How many syllables are in chicha?

chicha has 2 syllables and divides as chi-cha under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chicha?

Close synonyms include hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chicha a common word?

chicha 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.