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chayote

/t͡ʃɑˈjoʊti/noun

chayote is a noun meaning “Sicyos edulis, a tropical American perennial herbaceous vine having tendrils, tuberous roots, and a green, pear-shaped fruit cooked as a vegetable” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-A-Y-O-T-E, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chayote is chayotes.

What does chayote mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Sicyos edulis, a tropical American perennial herbaceous vine having tendrils, tuberous roots, and a green, pear-shaped fruit cooked as a vegetable.

  2. 2

    The fruit of this plant.

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

How do you pronounce chayote?

  • US /t͡ʃɑˈjoʊti/
  • UK /tʃaɪˈəʊti/

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

Forms of chayote

  • chayotes plural

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

How common is chayote?

Chayote appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).

Chayote in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchayotte, christophine, (Réunion) chouchou, séchion (plant)
GermanStachelgurke, Chayote (plant)
Portuguesechuchuzeiro, pé-de-chuchu (plant), chuchu, machucho, caiota, pimpinela (fruit)
Spanishchayotera (plant), chayote, tayota (fruit)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does chayote come from?

From Spanish chayote, from Classical Nahuatl chayohtli.

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