queso
/ˈkeɪsoʊ/
"queso" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“queso” is uncommon English (frequency #51,339 among 2,880 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,339
- frequency rank, English
- 2,880
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ellipsis of chile con queso: melted cheese, used for instance as a dipping sauce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queso |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪsoʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “queso” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
queso is uncommon English at frequency #51,339 among 2,880 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkeɪsoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ellipsis of chile con queso: melted cheese, used for instance as a dipping sauce.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for queso in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish queso, as found in Tex-Mex cuisine. Doublet of cheese. The correct English form is queso, spelled Q-U-E-S-O.
Definition
- 1Ellipsis of chile con queso: melted cheese, used for instance as a dipping sauce.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish queso, as found in Tex-Mex cuisine. Doublet of cheese.
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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Using “queso”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-E-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkeɪsoʊ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.