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chipe

Portuguese, noun/ˈʃi.pi/

chipe is spelled C-H-I-P-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chipe is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “chip (circuit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of chipar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “circuito eletrônico miniaturizado (composto principalmente por dispositivos semicondutores) sobre um…”.

What does chipe mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinechip (circuit)

  2. 2

    masculineSIM card

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 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. circuito eletrônico miniaturizado (composto principalmente por dispositivos semicondutores) sobre um substrato fino de material semicondutor

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 chipe

  • chipes plural
  • chip alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chipe?

  • Brazil /ˈʃi.pi/
  • Portugal /ˈʃi.pɨ/
  • Portugal /ˈt͡ʃi.pɨ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to chipe

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is chipe in Portuguese?

chipe appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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