chomp
/tʃɒmp/
"chomp" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chomp” is uncommon English (frequency #51,020 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,020
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of chomping (see below)
Corpus desk
Index EN-chomp · chomp · English
chomp · rank #51,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,020
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Chiapas
Nearest frequency peer: Chiapas (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “chomp”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cavan
cavan
48,987 corpus weight
- chastise
chastise
48,983 corpus weight
- Chiapas
Chiapas
48,982 corpus weight
- chomp
chomp
48,981 corpus weight
- Ciaran
Ciaran
48,980 corpus weight
- coffeehouse
coffeehouse
48,976 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chomp” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chomp |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʃɒmp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chomp” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chomp is uncommon English at frequency #51,020 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tʃɒmp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
chomp has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. The correct English form is chomp, spelled C-H-O-M-P.
Definition
- 1The act of chomping (see below)
- 2A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chomp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.
Etymology
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.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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