chiste
Portuguese, noun/ˈʃis.t͡ʃi/
chiste is spelled C-H-I-S-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 124,583rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chiste is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “joke” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “dito engraçado”.
What does chiste mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinejoke
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dito engraçado 2. pilhéria
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 chiste
- chistes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chiste?
- Brazil /ˈʃis.t͡ʃi/
- /ˈʃiʃ.t͡ʃi/
- Portugal /ˈʃiʃ.tɨ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chiste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chiste in Portuguese?
chiste appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).