chicken breast
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chicken breast |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chicken breast” sits in English frequency
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
- 1Meat 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.
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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.
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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.