However, just because there are higher ranking peppers out there doesn’t make it any less spicy! Does the Indian Army really convert them into chili grenades? First by the Infinity chili in 2011 followed by the Naga Viper, from the same region in India then the Trinidad moruga scorpion in 2012 and finally the Carolina Reaper, which claimed the world record in 2013with a Scoville score of 1,569,300. Since 2007, the ghost chili has been supplanted from its prominent position as the world’s spiciest pepper. With a Scoville score of 1,041,427 SHU, it is about 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce, about 200 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper, and about 6 times hotter than a habanero pepper. In 2007, the ghost pepper ranked as the the world’s hottest chili pepper. See where the Ghost Pepper ranks on this Scoville chart! Where do they rank on the Scoville Chart? And in case you were wondering, yes, ghost peppers can kill you. In Assamese B ih means “poison” and zôlôkia means pepper, making the literal translation Poison Pepper, obviously referring to it’s extreme spiciness. Inhabitants of Assam, the India state famous for its tea plantations, refer to the ghost pepper as bih zôlôkia. However, as Northeast India is very linguistically diverse part of the world, the ghost pepper has many different names including: ghost chili, Red Naga chili, Naga Bhut Jolokia, Bhoot Jolokia, and more. Bhut in Hindi means “ghost” while Jolokia translates to pepper or chili. The ghost pepper’s name is a literal translation from its Hindi name: Bhut Jolokia. Where does the name ghost pepper come from? The peppers themselves are red, yellow, orange depending on their ripeness. Generally, a fully ripe ghost pepper measures in from 2.4 to 3.3 in long and 1.0 to 1.2 in wide. An extremely variable plant, the ghost pepper produces a wide range of fruit sizes. The ghost pepper is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper, cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. However, how spicy is that to the palate? What is like to bite into one of these infamous chili peppers? Keep reading to find out just how hot a ghost pepper really is! What exactly is the ghost pepper? So spicy, in fact, that the Indian Army uses them to make chili grenades. The ghost pepper is one of spiciest chili peppers in the world.