chorizo

1. 1.

   a spicy Spanish pork sausage

   Broadersausage

Other forms of chorizo

plural

chorizoes·

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 chorizo

What does chorizo mean?

chorizo means "a spicy Spanish pork sausage".

How many syllables are in chorizo?

chorizo has 3 syllables: cho-ri-zo. The stress falls on "cho".

Is chorizo a common word?

chorizo is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.