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chocolate

choc·o·late/ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/noun, adjective, verb

chocolate is spelled C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E, 3 syllables: choc·o·late. The wrong spelling people search most is choclate: about 910 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 44 of all searches for the word. Chocolate is a noun meaning “A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans”. The plural of chocolate is chocolates.

How many letters and syllables are in chocolate?

Letters9: C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E
Syllables3: choc·o·late
In writing31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, choclate, about 910 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell chocolate?

Chocolate is spelled C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 44 of the searches for chocolate in either form.

chocolatethe right spelling38,760 searches a month
choclatea missing o910 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is chocolate?

Chocolate appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd 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 chocolate?

  • UK /ˈtʃɒk.(ə.)lət/
  • UK /ˈtʃɔːk.(ə.)lət/
  • US /ˈtʃɔk.(ə.)lɪt/

Chocolate has 3 syllables, split choc·o·late in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-chocolate.ogg, En-us-chocolate.ogg, En-ca-chocolate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of chocolate

  • chocolates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • more chocolate comparative
  • most chocolate superlative
  • chocolating participle, present
  • chocolated participle, past

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

What does chocolate mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

    Chocolate is a very popular treat.

  2. 2

    A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

  3. 3

    A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

    He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.

  4. 4

    A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

    As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.

  5. 5

    A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.

  6. 6

    slangA black person.

  7. 7

    slangBlackness.

adjective

  1. 1

    Made of or containing chocolate.

  2. 2

    Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

  3. 3

    slangBlack (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

verb

  1. 1

    rareTo add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

  2. 2

    rareTo treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

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

How do you abbreviate chocolate?

Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of chocolate: choc, choco.

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

Chocolate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchocolat (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans), praline (small piece of confectionery made from chocolate), de chocolat, au chocolat, chocolaté (made of or containing chocolate)
GermanSchokolade, Schoko (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans), Praline (small piece of confectionery made from chocolate), schokoladen (made of or containing chocolate), chocolat, schokoladenfarben (colour)
Portuguesechocolate (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans)
Spanishchocolate (food made from ground roasted cocoa beans), bombón (small piece of confectionery made from chocolate), achocolatado, chocolateado, de chocolate, chocolatoso (made of or containing chocolate)

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 chocolate come from?

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.

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

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