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chud

/t͡ʃʌd/noun

chud is spelled C-H-U-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chud means “Chewing gum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chud is chuds.

How many letters and syllables are in chud?

Letters4: C-H-U-D
Syllables1
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is chud?

Chud appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 chud?

  • /t͡ʃʌd/

Chud has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-chud.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of chud

  • chuds present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • chudding participle, present
  • chudded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does chud mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    UKslangChewing gum.

  2. 2

    A cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller.

  3. 3

    USslangA gross, physically unappealing person.

  4. 4

    derogatoryA person who holds reactionary political views.

    She refused to go to Thanksgiving with her chud family after her uncle started an argument about birtherism at the table last year.

  5. 5

    An unlikable, useless, or antisocial person.

    My little chud brother plays video games all day.

noun

as Chud
  1. 1

    A member of any of several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo champ; to bite.

contraction

  1. 1

    obsoleteI could

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does chud come from?

Compare chew, cud.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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