Cheshire cheese
"cheshire-cheese" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cheshire cheese” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheshire-cheese · Cheshire cheese · English
Cheshire cheese · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cheshire cheese |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cheshire cheese” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cheshire cheese is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Cheshire cheese in our 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Cheshire cheese, spelled C-H-E-S-H-I-R-E- -C-H-E-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Cheshire cheese appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Would not he believe that he had the same Antipathy to a Candied Orange, or a Piece of Puff-Past, as some have to a Cheshire Cheese, or a Breast of Mutton?
Cheshire cheeses, on account of their great size, are generally packed flat, and in a single tier only.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.