Chop Suey

/[t͡ʃɔpˈsuːi]/ noun

The verdict

“Chop Suey” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
9
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Gericht der amerikanisch-chinesischen Küche: verschiedene gebratene Gemüse, Pilze und Fleischstücke mit Reis

Key facts for Chop Suey
PropertyValue
HeadwordChop Suey
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t͡ʃɔpˈsuːi]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Chop Suey” sits in German frequency

Chop Suey falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Chop Suey is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t͡ʃɔpˈsuːi]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gericht der amerikanisch-chinesischen Küche: verschiedene gebratene Gemüse, Pilze und Fleischstücke mit Reis".

No misspelling variants are generated for Chop Suey in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Chop Suey, spelled C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gericht der amerikanisch-chinesischen Küche: verschiedene gebratene Gemüse, Pilze und Fleischstücke mit Reis

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Chop Suey"?
"Chop Suey" is spelled C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [t͡ʃɔpˈsuːi].
What does "Chop Suey" mean?
As a noun, "Chop Suey" means: Gericht der amerikanisch-chinesischen Küche: verschiedene gebratene Gemüse, Pilze und Fleischstücke mit Reis
How do you pronounce "Chop Suey"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Chop Suey" is [t͡ʃɔpˈsuːi]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Chop Suey" come from?
"Chop Suey" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Chop Suey”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [t͡ʃɔpˈsuːi] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.