cottage cheese
"cottage-cheese" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cottage 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cottage-cheese · cottage cheese · English
cottage cheese · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 | cottage cheese |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cottage cheese” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cottage cheese is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.".
cottage cheese doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: First known use is from 1831 in the periodical Godey's Lady's Book. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter. The correct English form is cottage cheese, spelled C-O-T-T-A-G-E- -C-H-E-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1A cheese curd product with a mild flavor that is drained but not pressed so some whey remains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cottage cheese appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: quark, mató, ricotta, tvorog
Etymology
First known use is from 1831 in the periodical Godey's Lady's Book. Believed to have originated because the simple cheese was usually produced in cottages from any left-over milk after making butter.
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.