chomp
/t͡ʃɑmp/noun, verb
chomp is spelled C-H-O-M-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chomp means “The act of chomping (see below)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chomp is chomps.
How many letters and syllables are in chomp?
| Letters | 5: C-H-O-M-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 51,129th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is chomp?
Chomp appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th 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 chomp?
- UK /tʃɒmp/
- US /t͡ʃɑmp/
Chomp has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-chomp.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with chomp?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chomp from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmp/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of chomp
- chomps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- chomping participle, present
- chomped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chomp mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of chomping (see below)
- 2
rareA unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
verb
- 1
To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
- 2
To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chomp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to bite or munch loudly or heavily:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | schmatzen |
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 chomp come from?
U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”). (computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).