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Definition: Chitchat |
ChitchatNoun1. Light informal conversation for social occasions. Verb1. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Chitchat \Chit"chat\, noun. [From Chat, by way of reduplication.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ChitchatSynonyms: causerie (n), chin-wag (n), chin-wagging (n), gab (n), gabfest (n), gossip (n), small talk (n), tittle-tattle (n), chaffer (v), chat (v), chatter (v), claver (v), confab (v), confabulate (v), jaw (v), natter (v), visit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conversation | Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chitchat |
| English words defined with "chitchat": small talk. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Converse; background noise; gathering; party; cocktail; chat; chitchat; commune; confer; discourse; exchange; gab; parley; rap; schmoose; speak; yack; talk. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Chitchat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chitchat" is used about 7 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
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 |
chitchat | 33 |
chitchat idea | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chitchat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thashetheme (backbite, badinage, gossip, grape vine, gup, hearsay, idle gossip, noise, old wives' tales, report, rumor, rumour, scuttlebutt, tale, tittle tattle, tootle, whisper), llomotitje (badinage, cackle, clack, flubdub, gibber, lip-labor, lip-labour, mag, prate, tattle, wag, wish-wash). (various references) | |
Arabic | محادثة سطحية, لغو (chat, chatter, crack, logorrhea, loquacity, moonshine, palaver, slipslop, small talk, tittle tattle, twitter), قيل وقال (scandal, talk, tittle tattle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | клюки (comment, gup, scandal, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), лек разговор (hobnob). (various references) | |
Czech | tlachy (wind), povídání (chat, narration, talk, talking), klábosení (chatter, gossip, jaw, natter), žvanìní (cackle, chatter, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, rigmarole, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wind). (various references) | |
French | parlote, bavardage (chat, chatting). (various references) | |
German | geplauder (chat, chatting, gossip, small talk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | buras (small talk). (various references) | |
Italian | chiacchierata (chat, gabfest, natter, talk). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雑話 , お喋り (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, gossip, idle talk, talk, talkative). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おしゃべり (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chatty, gossip, idle talk, talk, talkative), ざつわ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchatchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | conversa (causerie, chat, consultation, conversation, converse, discourse, gab, gabble, reasoning, slipslop, talk, trifling), tagarelice (blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, chirp chirrup, gab, gabble, gossiping, jaw, patter, prate, tittle-tattle), palestra (causerie, collogue, lecture, palaestra, palestra, visit), fofoca (gossip), bate-papo (conversation). (various references) | |
Russian | болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), пересуды. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ćaskati (chat, confabulate, make small talk). (various references) | |
Spanish | charla (babble, causerie, chat, chatter, clack, derision, gab, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, rattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittletattle, yap). (various references) | |
Turkish | sohbet (causerie, chat, confab, confabulation, conversation, gabfest, talk), havadan sudan konuşmak (chinwag), gevezelik (babbling, cackle, chattering, chinwag, clack, comment, gab, gabble, garrulity, gossip, indiscretion, jaw, jive, loquaciousness, loquacity, mouthiness, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, talky-talk, tattle, volubility, windiness, yap), çene çalmak (chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, gossip, have a gossip, jaw, prattle, visit), çene (chap, chin, chinwag, chop, eloquence, gab, glass jaw, jaw, jawbone, jowl, mandible). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chitchat": chitchats, chitchatted, chitchatting. (additional references) | |
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"Chitchat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chichit, Chilchutt, Schichau, shitcart, Shochat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "chitchat" (pronounced 'Chit"chat'): Furzechat, Woodchat. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-h-i-t-t" | |
-2 letters: tactic, thatch, tictac. | |
-3 letters: aitch, attic, cacti, catch, hatch, hitch, tacit. | |
-4 letters: chat, chia, chic, chit, hath, itch, tach, tact, that. | |
-5 letters: act, ait, att, cat, chi, hah, hat, hic, hit, ich, tat, tic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-h-i-t-t" | |
+1 letter: chitchats. | |
+3 letters: chitchatted. | |
+4 letters: chitchatting. | |
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