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chehalis

/ʃəˈheɪlɪs/noun

chehalis is a noun meaning “The sewellel (Aplodontia rufa)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-H-A-L-I-S, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does chehalis mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).

noun

as Chehalis
  1. 1

    A Native American people of Western Washington State.

  2. 2

    A Native American people of the Lower Mainland, British Columbia.

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

How do you pronounce chehalis?

  • /ʃəˈheɪlɪs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Chehalis.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is chehalis?

Chehalis appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).