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chapati

/t͡ʃəˈpæti/noun

chapati is spelled C-H-A-P-A-T-I: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chapati means “A flat, unleavened bread from northern India and Pakistan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chapati is chapatis.

How many letters and syllables are in chapati?

Letters7: C-H-A-P-A-T-I
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is chapati?

Chapati appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 chapati?

  • /t͡ʃəˈpæti/
  • /t͡ʃəˈpɑːti/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chapati.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chapati2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of chapati

  • chapatis plural
  • chapatti
  • chupati
  • chupatti

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

What does chapati mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A flat, unleavened bread from northern India and Pakistan.

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

Where does chapati come from?

From Hindi चपाती (capātī), from Sanskrit चर्पटी (carpaṭī). From a derivative of Sanskrit *चर्प (carpa, “flat”).

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

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