chocolate

Other forms of chocolate

plural

chocolates·

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 chocolate

What does chocolate mean?

chocolate means "a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chocolate?

chocolate has 2 syllables: choco-late. The stress falls on "choco". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɔklət/.

What is another word for chocolate?

Close synonyms include cocoa, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate, coffee, deep brown. 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 chocolate a common word?

chocolate 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.