cholent
/ˈt͡ʃoʊl(ə)nt/noun
cholent is a noun meaning “A meat and/or bean stew traditionally served on the Sabbath by Jews” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-L-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cholent is cholents.
What does cholent mean?
noun
- 1
A meat and/or bean stew traditionally served on the Sabbath by Jews.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cholent?
- /ˈt͡ʃoʊl(ə)nt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cholent
- cholents plural
- chulent
- schalet
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholent?
Cholent appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).
Cholent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense meat stew:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cholent, tcholent |
| German | Tscholent |
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 cholent come from?
From Yiddish טשאָלנט (tsholnt), of unknown origin, but may be from an Old French reflex of Latin calēns.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).