chott
/ʃɑt/noun
chott is spelled C-H-O-T-T: 5 letters. As a noun, chott means “A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chott is chotts.
How many letters and syllables are in chott?
| Letters | 5: C-H-O-T-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | too rare for the frequency list |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 do you pronounce chott?
- UK /ʃɒt/
- US /ʃɑt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Words people confuse with chott
Sounds like: shot, shott (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with chott?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as chott from its last stressed vowel (/ɑt/):
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 chott
- chotts plural
- shott
- shatt
- shat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chott mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does chott come from?
Borrowed from French chott, from Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ). Some of the alternative forms/synonyms (shatt, shat) derive directly from Arabic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).