chyme
/kaɪm/noun
chyme is a noun meaning “The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-Y-M-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chyme is chymes.
What does chyme mean?
noun
- 1
The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chyme?
- /kaɪm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-chyme.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chyme
- chymes plural
- chymus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chyme?
Chyme appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Chyme in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense partly digested food passed from the stomach to the duodenum:
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 chyme come from?
From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).