cheesecloth
"cheesecloth" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheesecloth” is uncommon English (frequency #79,372 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,372
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheesecloth · cheesecloth · English
cheesecloth · rank #79,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,372
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chesty
Nearest frequency peer: chesty (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “cheesecloth”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cero
cero
20,631 corpus weight
- cheesecloth
cheesecloth
20,629 corpus weight
- chesty
chesty
20,628 corpus weight
- Chiao
Chiao
20,626 corpus weight
- chiaroscuro
chiaroscuro
20,625 corpus weight
- chlorination
chlorination
20,623 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cheesecloth” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheesecloth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #79,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheesecloth” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheesecloth is uncommon English at frequency #79,372 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.".
cheesecloth doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cheese + cloth. The correct English form is cheesecloth, spelled C-H-E-E-S-E-C-L-O-T-H.
Definition
- 1A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.
Etymology
From cheese + cloth.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).