Is It Chili or Chilly?

If you're talking about the pepper or the popular food usually made with meat and beans, it's chili. By the way, the plural is chilies. ... Chilly is a weather term. It means moderately cold.

Why do they call it chilly?

He says that the name comes from the Spanish word 'chile', which has its own roots respectively in the Nahuatl language (the Aztecs spoke a variant of this). ... So the fact it is called a chilli has nothing to do with its temperature at all - it's just the word that was originally used for it in another language.

How do you spell chili in Canada?

Chile with an "e" at the end is the most common Spanish spelling in Mexico and other Latin American countries. It is also used in some parts of the United States and Canada when referring to the spicy pepper. The plural is "chile" or "chiles."