# chef vs chi

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### chef
*noun · IPA /ʃɛf/ · frequency rank #4,835*
The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

### chi
*noun · IPA /kaɪ/ · frequency rank #7,660*
The twenty-second letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chef-vs-chi