chute

1. 1.

   jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute

   Synonymsparachutejump

   Broaderdive

   Narrowersky dive

Other forms of chute

plural

chutes·

past tense

chuted·

present participle

chuting·

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 chute

What does chute mean?

chute means "rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chute?

chute has 1 syllable: chute. In IPA it is /ˈʃut/.

What is another word for chute?

Close synonyms include parachute, slide, slideway, sloping trough, parachute. 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 chute a common word?

chute 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.

What rhymes with chute?

7 words rhyme with chute. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.