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chaddi

/ˈt͡ʃʌ.di/noun

chaddi is spelled C-H-A-D-D-I: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chaddi means “Underwear, shorts, especially knickers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chaddi is chaddis.

How many letters and syllables are in chaddi?

Letters6: C-H-A-D-D-I
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is chaddi?

Chaddi appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce chaddi?

  • /t͡ʃəɖ.ɖiː/
  • [t͡ʃɐɖ̚.ɖiː]
  • US /ˈt͡ʃʌ.di/

Chaddi has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chaddi.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with chaddi?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chaddi from its last stressed vowel (/ʌdi/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of chaddi

  • chaddis plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does chaddi mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaUnderwear, shorts, especially knickers.

  2. 2

    IndiaMale or female underpants.

  3. 3

    IndiaderogatoryslangA member or supporter of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; by extension, a member or supporter of an organisation associated or affliated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does chaddi come from?

Borrowed from Hindi चड्डी (caḍḍī, “underwear”), or even directly from Punjabi ਚੱਡੀ (caḍḍī, “underwear”) from Sanskrit छद्दी (chaddī), from छद् (chad, “to cover”). The political sense derives from the iconic khaki coloured shorts worn as part of uniform of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which replaced them with brown trousers in the year 2016.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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