cheek bone
"cheek-bone" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheek bone” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of cheekbone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheek bone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cheek bone” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cheek bone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of cheekbone.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cheek bone in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cheek bone, spelled C-H-E-E-K- -B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of cheekbone.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cheek bone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-E-E-K- -B-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.