chid
"chid" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chid” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of chide
Corpus desk
Index EN-chid · chid · English
chid · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chid is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past of chide".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chid, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is chid, spelled C-H-I-D.
Definition
- 1simple past of chide
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
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.