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cheesesteak

noun

cheesesteak is spelled C-H-E-E-S-E-S-T-E-A-K: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cheesesteak means “A Philadelphia snack food consisting of chopped steak and melted cheese in a bread roll” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cheesesteak is cheesesteaks.

How many letters and syllables are in cheesesteak?

Letters11: C-H-E-E-S-E-S-T-E-A-K
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 70,702nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is cheesesteak?

Cheesesteak appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).

Forms of cheesesteak

  • cheesesteaks plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cheesesteak mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A Philadelphia snack food consisting of chopped steak and melted cheese in a bread roll.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does cheesesteak come from?

From cheese + steak.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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