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sandwich

san·dwichUK /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb, adjective

sandwich is spelled S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H, 2 syllables: san·dwich. The wrong spelling people search most is sandwhich: about 1,390 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Sandwich is a noun meaning “A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the…”. The plural of sandwich is sandwiches; Wiktionary also lists sandwichs (rare).

How many letters and syllables are in sandwich?

Letters8: S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H
Syllables2: san·dwich
In writing13 times per million words; the 5,778th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, sandwhich, about 1,390 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell sandwich?

Sandwich is spelled S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for sandwich in either form.

sandwichthe right spelling10,810 searches a month
sandwhichan extra h1,390 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is sandwich?

Sandwich appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,778th 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).

How do you pronounce sandwich?

  • UK /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/
  • UK /ˈsæn(d).wɪt͡ʃ/
  • UK [ˈsæm.wɪd͡ʒ]

Sandwich has 2 syllables, split san·dwich in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-sandwich.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of sandwich

  • sandwiches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • sandwichs plural, rare
  • sammich
  • samwich
  • sangwich
  • sandwiching participle, present
  • sandwiched participle, past

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

What does sandwich mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

  2. 2

    Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

  3. 3

    UKA layer cake or sandwich cake.

  4. 4

    archaicA sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

    We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

verb

  1. 1

    To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.

  2. 2

    To put or set between two other events in time.

  3. 3

    To double penetrate.

  4. 4

    informalTo feed sandwiches to.

  5. 5

    rareTo eat sandwiches.

adjective

  1. 1

    USOf a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

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

Sandwich in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsandwich (dish – see also open sandwich)
Germanbelegtes Brot, Sandwich, Stulle, Schnitte (dish – see also open sandwich), einklemmen, einzwängen (to place one item between two other, usually…)
Portuguesesanduíche, sandes, sanduba (dish – see also open sandwich), ensanduichar, sanduichar (to place one item between two other, usually…)
Spanishsándwich, sánduche, sánguche, emparedado, torta, bocadillo (dish – see also open sandwich)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does sandwich come from?

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

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

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