chutney

/\ʃœt.nɛ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#74,656

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chutney is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets. Pronounced \ʃœt.nɛ\.

Key facts for chutney
PropertyValue
Headwordchutney
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃœt.nɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#74,656
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of chutney in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chutney is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃœt.nɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #74,656 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets.".

No misspelling variants are generated for chutney 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 chutney, spelled C-H-U-T-N-E-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #74,656 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chutney"?
"chutney" is spelled C-H-U-T-N-E-Y. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃœt.nɛ\.
What does "chutney" mean?
As a noun, "chutney" means: Sauce, souvent aigre-douce, servie en accompagnement de mets.
How do you pronounce "chutney"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chutney" is \ʃœt.nɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chutney" come from?
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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.