chop suey
The verdict
“chop suey” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plat américano-chinois composé de viande (poulet, bœuf, crevettes ou porc), cuite rapidement avec des légumes (germes de haricot, chou, céleri etc.), liés avec une sauce épaissie à l’amidon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chop suey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃɔp swej\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chop suey” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chop suey is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃɔp swej\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for chop suey in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French 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
- 1Plat américano-chinois composé de viande (poulet, bœuf, crevettes ou porc), cuite rapidement avec des légumes (germes de haricot, chou, céleri etc.), liés avec une sauce épaissie à l’amidon.
- 2Restaurant chinois établi aux États-Unis.
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Using “chop suey”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-O-P- -S-U-E-Y — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃɔp swej\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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