cheddar
/ˈt͡ʃɛdə(ɹ)/noun, verb
cheddar is spelled C-H-E-D-D-A-R. The wrong spelling people search most is chedder: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Cheddar is a noun meaning “A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar”. The plural of cheddar is cheddars.
How many letters and syllables are in cheddar?
| Letters | 7: C-H-E-D-D-A-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 19,825th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chedder, about 370 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell cheddar?
Cheddar is spelled C-H-E-D-D-A-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for cheddar in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cheddar?
Cheddar appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th 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).
How do you pronounce cheddar?
- UK /ˈt͡ʃɛdə(ɹ)/
Cheddar 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-Cheddar.wav, En-cheddar.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with cheddar?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cheddar from its last stressed vowel (/ɛdəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of cheddar
- cheddars plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cheddaring participle, present
- cheddared participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cheddar mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.
- 2
slangMoney, cash, currency.
verb
- 1
To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.
noun
- 1
Cheddar cheese.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cheddar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 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 cheddar come from?
From Cheddar cheese. The slang use meaning "money, currency" may be derived from association with cheese (“wealth”), probably from Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).