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say it: CHIL-ee
chile is a noun meaning "a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast
very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
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 chile 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.