chicken: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 18 letter points · starts with C · ends with N
Meaning of chicken
noun
- countable
A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
Example: backyard chickens
- uncountable
The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Example: boneless chicken
- countable, derogatory, slang, sometimes
A coward.
- countable, derogatory, slang, sometimes
A young or inexperienced person.
Listed forms: chickens.
Source: Wiktionary — chicken.
adj
- derogatory, informal, sometimes
Cowardly.
Example: Why do you refuse to fight? Huh, I guess you're just too chicken.
Source: Wiktionary — chicken.
verb
- intransitive
To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
Listed forms: chickens, chickening, chickened.
Source: Wiktionary — chicken.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for chicken.
adjective
easily frightened
- chickenhearted
- lily-livered
- white-livered
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
noun
the flesh of a chicken used for food
- poulet
- volaille
noun
a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- Gallus gallus
noun
a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is chicken in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of chicken
C(3) + H(4) + I(1) + C(3) + K(5) + E(1) + N(1) = 18 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of chicken
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from chicken
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