Meanings
nounchili pepper (plural chili peppers)
plural chili peppers · alternative chile pepper · alternative chilli pepper
Synonyms & antonyms
nounplant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
Similar
nounvery hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans rissie, brandrissie
- rissiefruit
- brandrissiefruit
Arabic شَطَّة
- شَطَّة (šaṭṭa)fruit
Basque pipermin
- piperminfruit
Bengali মরিচ
- মরিচ (moric)fruit
Bulgarian лю́та чу́шка
- лю́та чу́шка (ljúta čúška)fruit
Catalan bitxo
- bitxofruit
Chinese Cantonese 辣椒
- 辣椒 (laat⁶ ziu¹)fruit
Chinese Mandarin 辣椒
- 辣椒 (làjiāo)fruit
Czech chilli paprička
- chilli papričkafruit
Dutch chilipeper
- chilipeperfruit
Esperanto kapsiko, kapsiketo
- kapsikofruit
- kapsiketofruit
Finnish chilipippuri
- chilipippurifruit
French piment
- pimentfruit
German Chili, Peperoni
- Chilifruit
- Peperonifruit
- Peperoncinofruit
- Pfefferonifruit
Greek πιπεριά καυτερί
- πιπεριά καυτερί (piperiá kafterí)fruit
Hawaiian nīoi
- nīoifruit
Hebrew פִּלְפֵּל חָרִיף
- פִּלְפֵּל חָרִיף (pilpel ḥaríf)fruit
Hindi मिर्च
- मिर्च (mirc)fruit
Hungarian csilipaprika
- csilipaprikafruit
Icelandic eldpipar
- eldpiparfruit
Indonesian cabai, cabe
- cabaifruit
- cabefruit
Italian peperoncino
- peperoncinofruit
Japanese 唐辛子, 蕃椒
- 唐辛子 (tōgarashi)fruit
- 蕃椒 (banshō)fruit
Korean 고추, 칠리
- 고추 (gochu)fruit
- 칠리 (chilli)fruit
Malay cabai, cili
- cabaifruit
- cilifruit
- ladafruit
Norwegian Bokmål chilipepper, chili
- chilipepperfruit
- chilifruit
Polish papryka chili
- papryka chilifruit
Portuguese chili, malagueta
- chilifruit
- malaguetafruit
Romanian ardei iute, ciușcă
- ardei iutefruit
- ciușcăfruit
Russian кра́сный пе́рец, го́рький пе́рец
- кра́сный пе́рец (krásnyj pérec)fruit
- го́рький пе́рец (górʹkij pérec)fruit
- пе́рец чи́ли (pérec číli)fruit
Spanish chile, ají
- chilefruit
- ajífruit
- locotefruit
Swedish chilipeppar
- chilipepparfruit
Tamil மிளகாய்
- மிளகாய் (miḷakāy)fruit
Thai พริกขี้หนู, พริก
- พริกขี้หนู (prík-kîi-nǔu)fruit
- พริก (prík)fruit
Turkish kırmızıbiber, Türk biberi
- kırmızıbiberfruit
- Türk biberifruit
- Hint biberifruit
- acı biberfruit
- Macar biberifruit
Ukrainian черво́ний пе́рець, пе́рець чи́лі
- черво́ний пе́рець (červónyj pérecʹ)fruit
- пе́рець чи́лі (pérecʹ čýli)fruit
Urdu مرچ
- مرچ (mirc)fruit
Vietnamese ớt
- ớtfruit
Cite this entry
APA
chili pepper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chili%20pepper
MLA
“chili pepper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chili%20pepper. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chili pepper,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chili%20pepper.
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