chitlins
/ˈt͡ʃɪtlɪnz/noun
chitlins is a noun meaning “Pronunciation spelling of chitterlings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-T-L-I-N-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does chitlins mean?
noun
- 1
Pronunciation spelling of chitterlings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chitlins?
- US /ˈt͡ʃɪtlɪnz/
- US /ˈt͡ʃɪtlənz/
- [ˈtʃɪtˤ.lɪnz]
Chitlins has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-chitlins.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is chitlins?
Chitlins appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).