choler
/ˈkɒlə(ɹ)/noun
choler is a noun meaning “Yellow bile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-L-E-R, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of choler is cholers.
What does choler mean?
noun
- 1
Yellow bile.
- 2
Anger or irritability.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce choler?
- /ˈkɒlə(ɹ)/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-choler.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of choler
- cholers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is choler?
Choler appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Words people confuse with choler
Sounds like: collar (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Choler in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense anger:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Ärger, Gereiztheit |
| Portuguese | cólera |
| Spanish | cólera |
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 choler come from?
From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).