chocoholic
noun, adjective
chocoholic is a noun meaning “Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-C-O-H-O-L-I-C, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chocoholic is chocoholics.
What does chocoholic mean?
noun
- 1
informalSomeone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
adjective
- 1
Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chocoholic
- chocoholics plural
- more chocoholic comparative
- most chocoholic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chocoholic?
Chocoholic appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th 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).
Chocoholic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chocolate addict:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chocoholique |
| Portuguese | chocólatra |
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 chocoholic come from?
From choco(late) + -holic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).