chose
/t͡ʃoʊz/noun, verb
chose is spelled C-H-O-S-E. The wrong spelling people search most is chosed: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Chose is a noun meaning “A thing; personal property”. The plural of chose is choses.
How many letters and syllables are in chose?
| Letters | 5: C-H-O-S-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,725th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chosed, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell chose?
Chose is spelled C-H-O-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for chose in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is chose?
Chose appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th 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 chose?
- UK /t͡ʃəʊz/
- US /t͡ʃoʊz/
Chose has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-chose.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with chose
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with chose?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chose from its last stressed vowel (/oʊz/):
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 chose
- choses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chose mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A thing; personal property.
verb
- 1
simple past of choose and (archaic spelling) chuse
- 2
colloquialnonstandardpast participle of choose
noun
- 1
Acronym of confidence, hope, optimism, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does chose come from?
From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).