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Date "CHILLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any of various large capsicum fruits that contain little if any capsaicin, are characterized by mild flavor-usu. have distinctly thick walls. . . called also bell pepper, green pepper. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Pakistan | The major crops are wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, gram, corn, sorghum, barley, rape seed and mustard and tobacco while the minor crops include pulses, potatoes, onion, chillies, and garlic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CHILLIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "CHILLIES" is used about 15 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 (plural) | 93.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chillies | 119 |
chillies restaurant | 69 |
bar chillies grill | 5 |
baby back chillies rib | 3 |
chillies curry hot very | 2 |
chillies hot red | 2 |
chillies growing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHILLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | peber med staerk og braendende smag (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pepers met een brandende smaak (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | poivron (chilli), piment rouge (chili), piment doux (chilli), piment (chilli), paprika (chilli), espèces de piment saveur âcre et brûlante (chiles, chilies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | peperoni (capsicum), Paprika mit brennendem Geschmack (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | είδη της πιπεριάς με δριμεία και καυστική γεύση (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | specie di peperoni dal sapore acre e bruciante (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | illieschay espécieS de pimento com sabor acre e picante (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) especies de pimientos con sabor acre y picante (chiles, chilies, peppers with acrid and burning taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Capsicum annuum, Capsicum annuum linnaeus, Capsicum frutescens, Capsicum frutescens Linnaeus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CHILLIES": chilliest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHILLIES" (pronounced khi"lēz) |
| 5 | kh i" l ē z | chilies, chilis. |
| 4 | -i" l ē z | fillies, Gillies, lilies. |
| 3 | -l ē z | alleles, alleys, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bellies, bullies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, follies, galleys, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jellies, jollies, monopolies, pulleys, rallies, sallies, subassemblies, subfamilies, tallies, tamales, trolleys, valleys, volleys, weeklies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-i-l-l-s" | |
-1 letter: chilies, silicle. | |
-2 letters: chiels, chiles, chilis, chilli, chills, chisel, liches, lichis, lilies. | |
-3 letters: ceils, celli, cells, chiel, chile, chili, chill, heils, hells, hills, lichi, lisle, shell, shiel, shill, slice. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cell, cels, chis, elhi, ells, heil, hell, hies, hili, hill, ices, ichs, ills, isle, lech, leis, lice, lich, lies, sell, sice, sill. | |
-5 letters: cel. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-i-l-l-s" | |
+1 letter: chilliest. | |
+2 letters: childliest, chilliness, chiselling. | |
+3 letters: lickerishly. | |
+4 letters: chillinesses, lysolecithin, methicillins, theistically. | |
+5 letters: alchemistical, atheistically, calligraphies, childlikeness, clotheslining, collieshangie, heuristically, lichenologies, lichenologist, lysolecithins. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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