how to pronounce chef

/ʃɛf/

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chef is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of chef in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… referred to as a chef in truth his …”

meanings of chef

noun:

Any cook.
The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
A reliquary in the shape of a head.

verb:

To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
To stab with a knife, to shank, to lacerate with a rambo.

chef frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word chef occurs in english on average 7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics chef can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that chef can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) food and health;