chop suey

/[ˈt͡ʃop ˈswej]/ phrase

The verdict

“chop suey” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
9
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plato de cocina chino-estadounidense que consiste en un salteado de carne, huevo, soja, arroz y otras verduras para acompañar, servido con una salsa espesa almidonada.

Key facts for chop suey
PropertyValue
Headwordchop suey
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈt͡ʃop ˈswej]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “chop suey” sits in Spanish frequency

chop suey falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for chop suey is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃop ˈswej]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plato de cocina chino-estadounidense que consiste en un salteado de carne, huevo, soja, arroz y otras verduras para acompañar, servido con una salsa espesa almidonada.".

No misspelling variants are generated for chop suey in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 chop suey, spelled C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plato de cocina chino-estadounidense que consiste en un salteado de carne, huevo, soja, arroz y otras verduras para acompañar, servido con una salsa espesa almidonada.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chop suey"?
"chop suey" is spelled C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt͡ʃop ˈswej].
What does "chop suey" mean?
As a phrase, "chop suey" means: Plato de cocina chino-estadounidense que consiste en un salteado de carne, huevo, soja, arroz y otras verduras para acompañar, servido con una salsa espesa almidonada.
How do you pronounce "chop suey"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chop suey" is [ˈt͡ʃop ˈswej]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chop suey" come from?
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Using “chop suey”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈt͡ʃop ˈswej] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.