feta
/ˈfɛtə/noun
feta is a noun meaning “A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-T-A and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feta is fetas.
What does feta mean?
noun
- 1
A variety of curd cheese made from sheep’s or goat’s milk and originating from Greece.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feta?
- /ˈfɛtə/
Feta has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-feta.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of feta
- fetas plural
- fetta
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feta?
Feta appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,459th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with feta
Sounds like: fetter (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Feta in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a variety of curd cheese:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does feta come from?
Borrowed from Greek φέτα (féta), from Italian fetta (“slice”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).