chili powder

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   powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano

   Broaderflavorer

Questions about chili powder

What does chili powder mean?

chili powder means "powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano".

Is chili powder a common word?

chili powder 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.