chat

/[ˈt͡ʃat̪]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,931

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

chat is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conversación escrita por internet realizada de manera instantánea mediante el uso de un software entre dos o más usuarios. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃat̪]. It ranks #5,931 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with che and chi.

Key facts for chat
PropertyValue
Headwordchat
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈt͡ʃat̪]
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,931
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chat in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chat is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃat̪]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,931 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conversación escrita por internet realizada de manera instantánea mediante el uso de un software entre dos o más usuarios.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for chat, with forms such as "caht", "cchat", and "chatt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "che", "chi", "cho", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is chat, spelled C-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Conversación escrita por internet realizada de manera instantánea mediante el uso de un software entre dos o más usuarios.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: caht,cchat,chatt,chhat,chta,hcat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for chat

Misspelling Variants of "chat"

caht4cchat5chatt5chhat5chta4hcat4
Misspelling Variants of "chat"

Frequency rank: #5,931 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chat"?
"chat" is spelled C-H-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt͡ʃat̪].
What does "chat" mean?
As a noun, "chat" means: Conversación escrita por internet realizada de manera instantánea mediante el uso de un software entre dos o más usuarios.
What words are commonly confused with "chat"?
"chat" is commonly confused with "che", "chi", "cho". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "chat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chat" is [ˈt͡ʃat̪]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chat" come from?
"chat" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.