chifle
Spanish, noun
chifle is spelled C-H-I-F-L-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 125,209th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chifle is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “whistle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of chiflar. With an accent, chiflé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of chiflar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento para emitir silbidos”.
What does chifle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewhistle
- 2
masculinean appetizer dish of fried green plantain
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of chiflar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrumento para emitir silbidos. 2. Silbato que imita el canto de las aves y que se usa para atraerlas y cazarlas. 3. Cuerno usado para beber. 4. Cuerno usado como recipiente para la pólvora.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chifle
- chifles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chifle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chifle in Spanish?
chifle appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).