Swiss cheese
"swiss-cheese" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Swiss 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes
Corpus desk
Index EN-swiss-cheese · Swiss cheese · English
Swiss cheese · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | Swiss cheese |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Swiss cheese” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Swiss cheese is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Swiss cheese, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Swiss cheese, spelled S-W-I-S-S- -C-H-E-E-S-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Emmentaler, a Swiss cheese with many holes
- 2By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes.
- 3Something that is full of holes or vulnerabilities.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Swiss cheese appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"If people really knew the extent to which the Internet is Swiss cheese, they would freak out," Fancher says. As with employee crime, the best protections against attacks by outsiders are matters of common sense, say security experts.
[…] surprise and frustration when systems ultimately decay into a block of security Swiss cheese.
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.