chilli

Other forms of chilli

plural

chillies

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 chilli

What does chilli mean?

chilli means "very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency".

How many syllables are in chilli?

chilli has 2 syllables: chil-li. The stress falls on "chil".

What is another word for chilli?

Close synonyms include chili, chili pepper, 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 chilli a common word?

chilli is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.