highchair
noun
highchair is a noun meaning “An elevated chair, often including a built-in tray, used for feeding babies and toddlers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-I-G-H-C-H-A-I-R, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of highchair is highchairs.
What does highchair mean?
noun
- 1
An elevated chair, often including a built-in tray, used for feeding babies and toddlers.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce highchair?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-highchair.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of highchair
- highchairs plural
- high chair
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is highchair?
Highchair appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
Highchair in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense elevated chair used for feeding babies:
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 highchair come from?
From high + chair.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).