The difference between Chili and Pepper
When used as nouns, chili means the pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used especially to add heat, or as a flavouring in cooking, whereas pepper means a plant of the family piperaceae.
Pepper is also verb with the meaning: to add pepper to.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chili and Pepper
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Chili as a noun:
The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used especially to add heat, or as a flavouring in cooking; associated with certain cuisines including Mexican, Tex-Mex, Indian, Thai and some parts of China.
Examples:
"The farmers’ market had a wide variety of chilis from anchos to jalapeños to habaneros."
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Chili as a noun:
A dish made with this fruit and other ingredients, such as beans and beef; chili con carne.
Examples:
"I [[fancy]] having some chili for dinner tonight. What about you?"
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Chili as a noun (uncountable):
Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
Examples:
"I want to make this pasta spicy so I’m going to add some chili to it."
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Pepper as a noun:
A plant of the family Piperaceae.
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Pepper as a noun (uncountable):
A spice prepared from the fermented, dried, unripe berries of this plant.
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Pepper as a noun (UK, US, Ireland, and, Canada):
A bell pepper, a fruit of the capsicum plant: red, green, yellow or white, hollow and containing seeds, and in very spicy and mild varieties.
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Pepper as a noun (baseball):
A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again
Examples:
"Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games"."
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Pepper as a noun (cryptography):
A randomly-generated value that is added to another value (such as a password) prior to hashing. Unlike a salt, a new one is generated for each value and it is held separately from the value.
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Pepper as a verb (transitive):
To add pepper to.
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Pepper as a verb (transitive):
To strike with something made up of small particles.
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Pepper as a verb (transitive):
To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
Examples:
"After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes."
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Pepper as a verb (transitive):
To add (something) at frequent intervals.
Examples:
"He liked to pepper his conversation with long words."