chilly, chili, chile

Chilly or chilly means somewhat cold--
Turn up the heat. It's getting chilly in here.
Take a sweater; it may be chilly later.

Chili or chili  ( rhymes with chilly ) means a stew made with meat, beans and hot peppers--
The cowboys made a big pot of chili, their favorite dish.
Do you want your chili with rice or with noodles?
Chili also means a hot pepper, or a chile pepper--
Do you want some chili sauce to go with that?

Chile or chile ( rhymes with chilly ) means a hot pepper--
Be careful with the chile peppers; they're hot.
Is this the right kind of chile for making salsa?

Now that you know that, you can say--
"When the weather gets chilly, there's nothing better than a hot bowl of chili with extra chile peppers."

Note--"Chile" ( rhymes with chilly, always capitalized ) is the name of a country in South America--
They planned a trip to Chile and Argentina. 
Note # 2--the plural of "chile" is "chiles" ( chill eez or chill ayz )--
Oh! I put too many chiles in the sauce!
The plural of "chili" is "chilies" ( chill eez )--
Buy some avocados and some chilies, and we'll make guacamole.
Note--not to be confused with "chiliasm" ( chill ee asm ), meaning the doctrine that the world will end and Christ will return--
A cult preaching a kind of chiliasm put up billboards announcing the second coming.