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chipolata

/ˌt͡ʃɪpəˈlɑːtə/noun

chipolata is a noun meaning “A type of sausage from Europe, typically of seasoned coarsely ground pork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-P-O-L-A-T-A, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chipolata is chipolatas.

What does chipolata mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A type of sausage from Europe, typically of seasoned coarsely ground pork.

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

How do you pronounce chipolata?

  • /ˌt͡ʃɪpəˈlɑːtə/

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

Forms of chipolata

  • chipolatas plural

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

How common is chipolata?

Chipolata appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).

Chipolata in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense type of sausage:

LanguageWords
Frenchchipolata
Spanishchipolata

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does chipolata come from?

From French chipolata, from Italian cipollata (“onion confit”), itself from cipolla (“onion”).

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