chag
/t͡ʃæɡ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Jewish festival or holiday, specifically, Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret
Etymology
From Middle English *chagge, from Old English ċeacga, ċeagga (“broom (plant), furze, or gorse”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *kagō (“brushwood, bush”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (“bush”). Cognate with Bavarian Kag (“the stalk or stem of a cabbage”), dialectal Swedish kage (“treestump”), Norwegian Nynorsk kage, kagge (“low lying bush, small tree”). Doublet of cag and keg.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *chagge, ċeacga, *kagō, *kagô, חַג
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /t͡ʃæɡ/
- British English: /t͡ʃæɡ/
Inflected Forms
chags (plural)
chagim (plural)