chilli pepper

Questions about chilli pepper

What does chilli pepper mean?

chilli pepper means "plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red".

What is another word for chilli pepper?

Close synonyms include cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, long pepper, jalapeno. 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 pepper a common word?

chilli pepper 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.