chef
Portuguese, noun/ˈʃɛ.fi/
chef is spelled C-H-E-F (4 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,851st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chef is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of chefe (the head cook of an establishment such as a restaurant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver chefe”.
What does chef mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinealternative form of chefe (the head cook of an establishment such as a restaurant)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver chefe
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chef
- chefs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chef?
- Brazil /ˈʃɛ.fi/
- Brazil /ˈʃɛf/
- Portugal /ˈʃɛf/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chef
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chef in Portuguese?
chef appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).