chaya
noun
chaya is a noun meaning “A teahouse in Japan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-Y-A, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Chaya, the name). The plural of chaya is chayas.
What does chaya mean?
noun
- 1
A teahouse in Japan.
- 2
A large, fast-growing leafy perennial Mexican shrub which is popular in Mexico and Central America as a leafy vegetable, cooked and eaten like spinach, from species Cnidoscolus aconitifolius or Cnidoscolus chayamansa.
- 3
One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to the personality.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chaya
- chayas plural
- chayah
- haya
- hayah
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chaya?
Chaya appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Chaya, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chaya come from?
From Japanese 茶屋 (chaya).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).