/ˈwiːt͡ʃæt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app.
Example Sentences
- "The "heads bowed down" (to look at cell phones), those obsessed with cell phones, virtual chat, the Internet, and excessive WeChatting, which we see as a phenomenon everywhere, reflect attempts to overcome the loneliness and disinterest this generation feels, and to make up for their empty spiritual world through newly available technologies."
- "With the development of social platforms such as micro blogging and wechatting, Chinese short text classification has great impact on public opinion analysis and sentiment mining."
- "Wechatting American politics: Misinformation, polarization, and immigrant Chinese media"
- "I WeChatted a seller calling herself Linda — a name that, amid others like Aadi, Aooko, Mr. Bao and Zippy, made her seem the least likely to scam me and/or get me placed on a C.I.A. watch list — and instantly she sent me photos of a dozen possible Triomphes."
Etymology
Entered English no later than 2012 when the app was re-branded WeChat for the international market. We corresponds to the first character in the original Chinese name 微信 (Wēixìn, literally “micro-message”), + chat.