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gchat

noun, verb

gchat is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Gchat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-C-H-A-T, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gchat is gchats.

What does gchat mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

noun

as Gchat
  1. 1

    colloquialA message or chat on Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat.

verb

as Gchat
  1. 1

    colloquialTo talk (to someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat; to send (someone) a message on any of these services.

  2. 2

    colloquialTo send (something) to (someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat.

noun

as GChat
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

verb

as GChat
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

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

Forms of gchat

  • gchats plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • gchatting participle, present
  • gchatted participle, past

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

How common is gchat?

Gchat appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Where does gchat come from?

From the first letter of Google + chat, after Gmail and Google Talk.

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