Chute or shute?
chute is a noun meaning “A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide…”; shute is a noun meaning “Alternative form of chute”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) chute is about 7.1 times as common as shute.
What is the difference between chute and shute?
| chute | shute | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun |
| Meaning | A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel A waterfall or rapid informalA parachute | A steep road through a cleft in a hill |
| Example | Gas! I've got to pull my 'chute down around me-- fast! | none recorded |
| Forms | chutes 'chutes | shutes |
| Pronunciation | /ʃuːt/ /ʃut/ /ʃʉt/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words | about once in every 5 million words |
Sources: chute and shute in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of chute and shute
chute
- 1
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel
- 2
informalA parachute
- 3
informalTo parachute
- 4
Alternative spelling of chute
Gas! I've got to pull my 'chute down around me-- fast!
- 5
A waterfall or rapid
- 6
slangA spinnaker
- 7
A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo
- 8
An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race
shute
- 1
Alternative form of chute
- 2
Alternative form of shoot
- 3
A steep road through a cleft in a hill
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, chute or shute?
chute appears 1.5 times per million words; shute about once in every 5 million words.
chute 1.5 times per million wordsshute about once in every 5 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search chute vs shute?
“chute vs shute” is searched about 40 times a month on Google and 20 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“shute vs chute”, “chute or shute”).
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