chicken breast

noun

"chicken-breast" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“chicken breast” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Meat from the body of a chicken.

Key facts for chicken breast
PropertyValue
Headwordchicken breast
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chicken breast” sits in English frequency

chicken breast falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

chicken breast is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Meat from the body of a chicken.".

Zero misspellings are on record for chicken breast in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is chicken breast, spelled C-H-I-C-K-E-N- -B-R-E-A-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Meat from the body of a chicken.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chicken breast"?
"chicken breast" is spelled C-H-I-C-K-E-N- -B-R-E-A-S-T.
What does "chicken breast" mean?
As a noun, "chicken breast" means: Meat from the body of a chicken.
What language does "chicken breast" come from?
"chicken breast" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “chicken breast”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is C-H-I-C-K-E-N- -B-R-E-A-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list