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chatan

noun

chatan is a noun meaning “The bridegroom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-T-A-N, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chatan is chatanim.

What does chatan mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The bridegroom.

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

Forms of chatan

  • chatanim plural
  • chasan
  • choson
  • chosson
  • hatan

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

How common is chatan?

Chatan appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).

Where does chatan come from?

Borrowed from Hebrew חָתָן.

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