chyle
/kaɪl/noun
chyle is a noun meaning “A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-Y-L-E, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chyle is chyles.
What does chyle mean?
noun
- 1
A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
- 2
Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child")
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chyle?
- /kaɪl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chyle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chyle
- chyles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chyle?
Chyle appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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).
Words people confuse with chyle
Sounds like: kile, kyle (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Chyle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense digestive fluid:
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 chyle come from?
From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).