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chet

/ʃɛ.t/

chet is the alternative spelling of heth.

chet is the clipping of chete.

Meaning of heth

Noun

heth (plural heths)

  1. The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

See all 3 meanings of heth

Meaning of chete

Noun

chete (plural chetes)

  1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
    • Loo, known to go skits, skits
      Big long chete, tryna fling it at melons
      If I stab kids, kids
      Then who the fuck did it on Teron2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze, “Anti”, 2:50–57

Proper noun capitalized: Chet

IPA/t͡ʃɛt/

Chet (countable and uncountable, plural Chets)

  1. (countable) A diminutive of the male given name Chester.
  2. A river in Norfolk, England, tributary to the Yare.

Forms of chet

Noun
pluralchets
Proper noun
pluralChets

Words that rhyme with chet

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about chet

What does chet mean?
Chet means a diminutive of the male given name Chester.
What is chet the alternative spelling of?
Chet is the alternative spelling of heth.
What part of speech is chet?
Chet is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce chet?
Chet is pronounced /ʃɛ.t/.

Words near chet in the dictionary

  1. chesty
  2. Chesvan
  3. Cheswardine
  4. Cheswell
  5. Cheswick
  6. chet
  7. chetah
  8. chetahs
  9. chetak
  10. chetaks
  11. Chetan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chet (page history and authors); Chet (page history and authors); heth (page history and authors); chete (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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