goat cheese
"goat-cheese" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“goat 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any cheese produced using goatmilk.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | goat cheese |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “goat cheese” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
goat cheese is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any cheese produced using goatmilk.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for goat cheese, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English gate cuse. The correct English form is goat cheese, spelled G-O-A-T- -C-H-E-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Any cheese produced using goatmilk.
Etymology
From Middle English gate cuse.
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.
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Using “goat cheese”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O-A-T- -C-H-E-E-S-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.