skim milk
"skim-milk" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skim milk” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skim milk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “skim milk” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
skim milk is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.".
skim milk has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is skim milk, spelled S-K-I-M- -M-I-L-K.
Definition
- 1Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.
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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 “skim milk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-K-I-M- -M-I-L-K - 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.