chili

Other forms of chili

plural

chilis·

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 chili

What does chili mean?

chili means "ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chili?

chili has 2 syllables: chil-i. The stress falls on "chil". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɪli/.

What is another word for chili?

Close synonyms include chili con carne, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile. 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 chili a common word?

chili is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chili?

2 words rhyme with chili. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.