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cheese fly

/ˈt͡ʃiːz.flaɪ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English

Syllables
cheese fly
IPA
/ˈt͡ʃiːz.flaɪ/
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Piophila casei, a small fly whose larvae infest cheese and other foods.

Etymology

From cheese + fly.

Inflected Forms

cheese flies (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce cheese fly?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃiːz.flaɪ/.
What does cheese fly mean?
Piophila casei, a small fly whose larvae infest cheese and other foods.
Where does cheese fly come from?
From cheese + fly.

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