chole
/ˈtʃoʊleɪ/noun
chole is a noun meaning “Chickpeas, or a curry consisting mainly of chickpeas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chole is choles.
What does chole mean?
noun
- 1
Chickpeas, or a curry consisting mainly of chickpeas.
- 2
colloquialClipping of cholecystectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chole?
- /ˈtʃoʊleɪ/
As a noun (“Clipping of cholecystectomy”): / ˈkoʊli/.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chole.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chole2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chole
- cholay
- choles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chole?
Chole appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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).
Where does chole come from?
From Hindi छोले (chole, “chickpeas”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).