chile
Portuguese, noun/ˈʃi.li/
chile is spelled C-H-I-L-E (5 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,474th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chile is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative form of chili” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of chilar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “país da América do Sul, faz fronteira com a Argentina, Peru e a Bolívia”.
What does chile mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of chili
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. país da América do Sul, faz fronteira com a Argentina, Peru e a Bolívia
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 chile
- chiles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chile?
- Brazil /ˈʃi.li/
- Portugal /ˈʃi.lɨ/
- Portugal /ˈt͡ʃi.lɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chile
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chile in Portuguese?
chile appears 37 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).