Chaff

Definition: Chaff

Chaff

Noun

1. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.

2. Foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure.

Verb

1. Be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around".

Date "chaff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	= window. (references)
Bible	Chaff the refuse of winnowed corn. It was usually burned (Ex. 15:7; Isa. 5:24; Matt. 3:12). This word sometimes, however, means dried grass or hay (Isa. 5:24; 33:11). Chaff is used as a figure of abortive wickedness (Ps. 1:4; Matt. 3:12). False doctrines are also called chaff (Jer. 23:28), or more correctly rendered "chopped straw." The destruction of the wicked, and their powerlessness, are likened to the carrying away of chaff by the wind (Isa. 17:13; Hos. 13:3; Zeph. 2:2). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety. Women dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent in useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety and causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained them without work on their part. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Industry	A component of trash in cotton in the form of a heterogeneous assortment of vegetable fragments, most of them being small pieces of leaf, leaf bract(a small form of leaf growing beneath the boll), and stalk. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Chaff An old bird is not to be caught with chaff. An experienced man, or one with his wits about him, is not to be deluded by humbug. The reference is to throwing chaff instead of bird-seed to allure birds. Hence- You are chaffing me. Making fun of me. A singular custom used to exist in Notts and Leicestershire some half a century ago. When a husband ill-treated his wife, the villagers emptied a sack of chaff at his door, to intimate that "thrashing was done within," which some think to be the origin of the word. "To chaff, " meaning to banter, is a variant of chafe, to irritate. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Military	Strips of frequency-cut metal foil, wire, or metallized glass fiber used to reflect electromagnetic energy, usually dropped from aircraft or expelled from shells or rockets as a radar countermeasure. See also rope; rope-chaff. (references)
Weather	Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. Chaff drops once were conducted by the military in order to confuse enemy radar, but now are conducted mainly for radar testing and calibration purposes. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Chaff

Synonyms: husk (n), shuck (n), stalk (n), straw (n), stubble (n), banter (v), jolly (v), kid (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Choice	Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy.
Commonalty	Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.
Cunning	Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.
Discrimination	Verb: discriminate, distinguish, severalize; recognize, match, identify; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; separate the men from the boys; split hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble.
Ridicule	Verb: ridicule, deride, mock, taunt; laugh in one's sleeve; tease, badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze; tehee; fleer; show up.
	Noun: ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision; scoffing; (disrespect); mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing; Verb: asteism.
Skill	Clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive; shrewd, sharp, on the ball; (intelligent); cunning; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.
Unimportance	Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Tree and the Chaff (1913)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Chaff before the Wind: (reference) Country Chaff (reference) Country chaff II (reference) Getting the Main Point: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff (A Skill at a Time Series) (reference) Scattered: Like Chaff in the Wind (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Chaff from thresher. Weld County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.		Jackson, Michigan. Threshing machine throwing chaff. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Burton	As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Molinos	With the wind of tribulation God separates, in the floor of the soul, the wheat from the chaff.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The RTN has an immediate demand for electronic warfare systems such as electronic jammers and electronic countermeasures (ECMs), and is currently looking for chaff super rapid-block countermeasures to protect its vessels from missile attack. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Chaff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Chaff" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.31%	60	43,597
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	4.62%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.08%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	65	N/A

Expressions using "chaff": chaff among the corn ♦ chaff cutter ♦ chaff smb. ♦ not to be caught with chaff ♦ separate the chaff from the wheat. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "chaff": chaff-chutter, chaff-cutter, chaff-tempering.
	Ending with "chaff": chiff-chaff, rope-chaff.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "chaff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpoti (gibe), sanë (fodder, hay), ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bedevil, bother, chip, dare, excite, guy, harass, Harrow, Harry, irritate, jolly, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, ruffle, tamper, tease), ngacmim (banter, bothering, dig, excitation, excitement, harassment, impulse, irritation, jesting, molestation, nagging, provocation, raillery, rally, rub, teasing), mbeturina (char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack), kosit (mow, mow down, scythe, shave), kashtë (haulm, straw, stubble, thatch), byk (hayseed, Hull, husk). (various references)

Arabic		‏مزح (banter, banting, fool, frolic, fun, in play, joke, kid, lark, make fun of, rag, skylark, trifle, waggle), ‏هشيم (broken, straw), ‏نفاية (dump, garbage, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, slush, soil, swill, trash, waste), ‏قشرة الحبة, ‏قش (broom, haulm, hay, straw, stubble, thatch, whisk), ‏تبن (hay, pallet, straw), ‏العصافة قشر الحنطة. (various references)

Bulgarian		сламен (leghorn, oaten, straw, strawy), слама (halm, straw), шегувам се (gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, rally, rot, sport), шега (fun, game, hoax, jape, jest, jig, joke, lark, pleasantry, prank, quiz, raillery, rib, sport, tease, trick, waggery), неравностоен заместител, нарязвам сено, закачка (fun, gird, jest, kidding, pleasantry, rib, tease, twit, waggery, yak), задявка (raillery), задявам се (badinage, banter, mock), плява (tailings). (various references)

Chinese		谷壳, 秕� (worthless stuff). (various references)

Czech		plevy. (various references)

Danish		svind ved bomuldsforarbejdningen, emter (tailings), avner (tailings). (various references)

Dutch		kaf (tailings), haksel. (various references)

Farsi		پوسته (Case, Cod, Cortex, Membrane, Shuck), پوشال , کاه (Pug, Straw), سبوس (Bran, Husk, Shuck, Slough). (various references)

Finnish		akanat (tailings). (various references)

French		menue paille, balle. (various references)

German		spreu (tailings). (various references)

Greek		έλυτρο (husk, shell), σκύβαλο (riffraff, rubbish), σκουπίδια (garbage, junk, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash), βράκτεια φύλλα, ξένες ύλες φυτικής προέλευσης, πειράζω (annoy, badinage, banter, gall, grate on, haze, jar on, mind, peeve, pick on, rally, rile, tease, tempt, vex), φλοιόσ σταριού, άγανο (beard, tailings), άχυρο (glume, straw), λέπυρο (glume, scale, tailings), λεπτό άχυρο, αστειεύομαι (jape, jest, joke, kid), αστείο (antics, fun, gag, hoax, jape, jest, joke, pleasantry, sport). (various references)

Hebrew		מוץ, תבן (provender, straw, stubble), קש (mulch, straw, thatch), � שובת, � עורת (refuse). (various references)

Hungarian		ugratás (banter, josh, joshing, kid, leg pull, ragging, raillery, teasing), szecska (chop), pelyva (glume, shelling). (various references)

Indonesian		dedak (bran, pollard). (various references)

Italian		pula (pula, tailings), loppa (glume, tailings). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		チフス菌 (a channel, chalk, Chalmers, champion, champion flag, championship belt, chance, channel, channelling, chapel, chapter, charge, charity, Charleston, charm, charm point, charming, chart, chart file, charter, chat, chattering, child, child seat, chime, China, Chinese, Chinese collar, chunk, church, key-bounce, Mandarin collar, most attractive feature, opportunity, pennant, self-challenge, Tchaikovsky, Tibet, trying hard to do something, typhoid bacillus, zipper), 殻　 (hull, husk, shell), 殻 (hull, husk, shell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		チャフ , から (emptiness, hull, husk, shell). (various references)

Korean		겨. (various references)

Manx		kiaulleyder beg (chiff-chaff), drean dressagh (chiff-chaff), beeallerey (chiff-chaff). (various references)

Pig Latin		affchay.(various references)

Portuguese		cortar (bite, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), coisa sem valor (dab, punk, rap), zombaria (fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jibe, mock, mockery, persiflage, ragging, raillery, ridicule, scoff, slyness, sneer, sport), zombar de (flout, rag, ridicule, sneer), traste (dud, piece of furniture, rattle-box, rattletrap, rogue, scoundrel), pilhéria (joke, sly joke), palha miúda, palha (haulm), impurezas vegetais do algodão, fardo (bale, bundle, burden, fardel, freight, pack, package, parcel, tax, truss, weight), droga (doping, drug, nostrum, physic, shebang, tripe), debulho (tailings), de cereais, arreliar (bully, bullyrag, corkscrew, fret, kid, needle, persecute, rag, ruffle, tease, torment, twit). (various references)

Romanian		zeflemisi (banter, deride, rail, ridicule, score, scorn, slight, taunt), zeflemea (banter, chaffing, gibe, jeer, jesting, quip, raillery, scorn, taunt), tachinare (teasing), tachina (banter, Josh, lark, rag, tease), tãia mãrunt (chip, mince), prosti (bamboozle, besot, chouse, dull, dupe, fool, make a fool of, stultify, stupefy), pleavã (husk, tailing), paie tocate, lucru fãrã valoare (fillip, fox-fire, rap, triviality), ironiza (banter, gibe), glumã (farce, frolic, fun, gag, game, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, sport, trick, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism), fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rot, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket), şişcã, agasa (annoy, banter, irritate, ruffle, tease, worry). (various references)

Russian		мякина (pug). (various references)

Scottish		c� th (husks of corn), monasg, moll. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zadirkivati (badinage, josh, kid, needle, put on, rag, rib, tease, twit), trice, pleva (glume, tailings), dipolni antiradarski reflektori. (various references)

Spanish		paja menuda (tailings), paja (blah, masturbation, padding, rubbish, straw, tap, thatch, trash, waffle). (various references)

Swedish		agnar (tailings), hackelse (chopped straw), boss (boss, guv, guv'nor, top dog). (various references)

Thai		แกลบ (husk), เศษของไม่มีค่า, ฟาง, การหยอกล้อ (kidology, ribbing), หยอกล้อ (bait, rag). (various references)

Turkish		ufalamak (break up, chip off, comminute, crumb, crumble, pulverize, scrap), takılmak (banter, be affixed, be attached, catch, chip, guy, hang out, haunt, hook, impose oneself on, jam, jam in, jolly, Josh, kid, lark, lark about, lark around, lock, lock on, pull smb.'s leg, rally, rib, rot, seize, seize up, snag, sport, stick, stick around, tease), saman tozu, saman (fodder, halm, haulm, hay, straw), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kıyılmış hayvan yemi, şakalaşma, şaka etmek, şaka (badinage, banter, drollery, fun, game, hell, humor, humour, jest, joke, lark, monkeyshiness, pleasantry, quiz, sport, waggery, waggishness, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism), önemsiz mesele, ıvır zıvır (crap, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadget, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, junk, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, odds and ends, rubbish, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets). (various references)

Turkmen		harpyk. (various references)

Ukrainian		січка (shorts), рубати (chop, cut down, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mangle), різати (cut, shred), теревені, костриця (scutch), кепкувати (badinage, droll, joke), кепкування (badinage, persiflage), висівки (bran, chisel, offal, pug), жартувати (badinage, banter, droll, fun, gag, jape, jest, joke, jolly, lark, lark around, monkey, play, trifle, yak), жартування (badinage, raillery, trifling), полова, дрібно порізана солома, дражнити (badger, badinage, bait, banter, needle, pick on, quiz, rag, start on, taunt, tease, vex). (various references)

Vietnamese		công dã tr� ng, trấu, lời nói giỡn, lời nói đùa (jocularity, joke), lời giễu cợt (cynicism, quirk, raillery), lời chế giễu (jest, mockery, persiflage, scoff), lời bỡn cợt (josh). (various references)

Welsh		us, peiswyn, mwlwg (refuse, sweepings). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	in-dal. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acariae, acus, palea, paleae, palearum, paleas, paleis. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	crappa, crapinum. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	paillete. (various references)
Middle English	1100-1500	crappe. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ou to ptuon en th ceiri autou kai diakaqariei thn alwna autou kai sunaxei ton siton autou eiV thn apoqhkhn to de acuron katakausei puri asbestw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Cuius ventilabrum in manu sua et permundabit aream suam et congregabit triticum suum in horreum paleas autem conburet igni inextinguibili
Old English	990	West Saxon	Hys hwæteon his bearn. þa chefu he forberneð onunadwæscendlice fyre.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whos wynewing cloth is in his hoond, and he shal fulli clense his corn flore, and shal gadere his whete in to his berne; but the chaffe he shal brenne with fier that mai not be quenchid.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Which hath also his fan in his hod and will pourge his floure and gadre ye wheet into his garner and will burne ye chaffe with vnquecheable fyre
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and gather his wheat into the granary; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Matthew Chapter 3, Verse 12
Cebuano	Ang iyang paliran anaa na sa iyang kamot; pagahinloan niya ang iyang giukan ug hiposon niya ang iyang trigo ngadto sa dapa, apan ang mga uhot iyang pagasunogon sa kalayo nga dili arang mapalong."
Croatian	U ruci mu vijaèa, proèistit æe svoje gumno i skupiti žito u svoju žitnicu, a pljevu spaliti ognjem neugasivim."
Danish	Hans Kasteskovl er i hans Hånd, og han skal gennemrense sin Lo og samle sin Hvede i Laden; men Avnerne skal han opbrænde med uslukkelig Ild."
Dutch	Wiens wan in Zijn hand is, en Hij zal Zijn dorsvloer doorzuiveren, en Zijn tarwe in Zijn schuur samenbrengen, en zal het kaf met onuitblusselijk vuur verbranden.
Finnish	Hänellä on viskimensä kädessään, ja hän puhdistaa puimatanterensa ja kokoaa nisunsa aittaan, mutta ruumenet hän polttaa sammumattomassa tulessa."
French	Il a son van � la main; il nettoiera son aire, et il amassera son blé dans le grenier, mais il brûlera la paille dans un feu qui ne s`éteint point.
German	Und er hat seine Wurfschaufel in der Hand: er wird seine Tenne fegen und den Weizen in seine Scheune sammeln; aber die Spreu wird er verbrennen mit ewigem Feuer.
Haitian Creole	Li gen laye l' nan men li. L'ap vannen tout grenn ki sou glasi a. La ranmase grenn ki bon yo, la mete yo nan galata li; men, l'ap boule pay la nan yon dife ki p'ap janm mouri.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Di tangan-Nya ada nyiru untuk menampi semua gandum-Nya sampai bersih. Gandum akan dikumpulkan-Nya di dalam lumbung, tetapi semua sekam akan dibakar-Nya di dalam api yang tidak bisa padam."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Nyirunya ada di dalam tangan-Nya; maka Ia akan membersihkan segenap tempat pengiriknya, lalu Ia mengumpulkan gandumnya masuk ke dalam lumbung, tetapi sekamnya akan habis dibakar-Nya dengan api yang tiada dapat dipadamkan."
Italian	Egli ha in mano il ventilabro, pulir� la sua aia e raccoglier� il suo grano nel granaio, ma brucer� la pula con un fuoco inestinguibile».
Manx Gaelic	Ta'n cleayst echey ayns e laue, as nee eh dy bollagh e laare-vooie y ghlenney, as gowee eh e churnaght stiagh ayns e hie-tashtee: agh loshtee eh yn choau lesh aile nagh bee er ny vooghey.
Maori	Ko tana mea tahi kei tona ringa, a e tino tahia e ia tana patunga witi, a e kohia ana witi ki roto ki te whare witi; tena ko te papapa e tahuna ki te kapura e kore e tineia.
Norwegian	han har sin kasteskovl i sin hånd, og han skal rense sin låve og samle sin hvete i laden, men agnene skal han brenne op med uslukkelig ild.
Portuguese	A sua pá ele tem na mão, e limpará bem a sua eira; recolherá o seu trigo ao celeiro, mas queimará a palha em fogo inextinguível.
Rumanian	Acela Kwi are lopata kn mknq, Kwi va curqyi cu desqvkrwire aria, wi Kwi va strknge grkul kn grknar; dar pleava o va arde kntr`un foc care nu se stinge.``
Russian	МП� БФБ еЗП Ч ТХЛЕ еЗП, Й пО ПЮЙУФЙФ ЗХНОП уЧПЕ Й УП�'ЕТЕФ � ЫЕОЙ�"Х уЧПА Ч ЦЙФОЙ�"Х, Б УПМПНХ УПЦЦЕФ ПЗОЕН ОЕХЗБУЙНЩН.
Shuar	Aruusa nerejai Túruinia aintsan átatui. Awajtiutairin achikiuiti tura nujai saepen awajtittiawai. Tura neren pénker ikiustatui, antsu saepenka jinium apeattawai. Nu jisha tuke kajinchaiti." Tu Tímiayi Juan.
Spanish	Su aventador está en su mano, y limpiará su era. Recogerá su trigo en el granero y quemará la paja en el fuego que nunca se apagará."
Swahili	Yeye anashika mkononi chombo cha kupuria nafaka, ili aipure nafaka yake; akusanye ngano ghalani, na makapi ayachome kwa moto usiozimika." ic
Swedish	Han har sin kastskovel i handen, och han skall noga rensa sin loge och samla in sitt vete i ladan; men agnarna skall han bränna upp i en eld som icke utsläckes."
Uma	Hi'a ma'ala rarapai' -ki tauna to mpowiri' pae. Nagaa' pae to mo'ihi ngkai to lopa' -na duu' -na me'itu'. Pae to mo'ihi napuna' hi rala wilulu, pai' to lopa' -na nasuwe hi rala apu to jela' ncuu duu' kahae-hae-na."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "chaff": chaffed, chaffer, chaffered, chafferer, chafferers, chaffering, chaffers, chaffier, chaffiest, chaffinch, chaffinches, chaffing, chaffs, chaffy. (additional references)
	Words ending with "chaff": chiffchaff. (additional references)
	Words containing "chaff": chiffchaffs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Chaff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caaf, cafc, Caffa, chaf, chaffe, chaft, chaif, chaiff, chamf, Charfi, chauf, cheff, chf, chiff, Claffam, Hafif, Hanff, Harff, khaf, Klaff, rhkaaf, Schaff, Scheff, shaff, Vhaf. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "chaff" (pronounced kha"f)
2	-a" f	behalf, calf, gaff, gaffe, giraffe, graph, half, laugh, Raff, staff.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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	Words within the letters "a-c-f-f-h"
	-1 letter: caff.
	-2 letters: aff.
	-3 letters: ah, fa, ha.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-f-f-h"
	+1 letter: chaffs, chaffy.
	+2 letters: affiche, chaffed, chaffer.
	+3 letters: affiches, chaffers, chaffier, chaffing, chauffer, handcuff.
	+4 letters: chaffered, chafferer, chaffiest, chaffinch, chauffers, chauffeur, handcuffs, rechauffe.
	+5 letters: chafferers, chaffering, chauffeurs, chiffchaff, chiffonade, chromaffin, farfetched, handcuffed, rechauffes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day
chaff	27
chaff wheat	11
chaff spreader	5
chaff from wheat	3
chaff flare	3
chaff cutter	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chaff

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Chaff

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Choice

Commonalty

Cunning

Discrimination

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Skill

Unimportance

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