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chillun

/ˈt͡ʃɪl.ən/noun

chillun is spelled C-H-I-L-L-U-N: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chillun means “Pronunciation spelling of children (plural of chile (“child”)), representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in chillun?

Letters7: C-H-I-L-L-U-N
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is chillun?

Chillun appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).

How do you pronounce chillun?

  • /ˈt͡ʃɪl.ən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-chillun.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does chillun mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of children (plural of chile (“child”)), representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English

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

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