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I tried the first and second solution proposed here Change the word "Chapter" to something else . But once I replaced book by memoir class. It triggered an error. The first solution was completely broken while the second one, while intact, triggered the following message: 

/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.sty, line 302
LaTeX Error: Command \footruleskip already defined.
                   Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.302 ...and{\footruleskip}{.3\normalbaselineskip}

Your command was ignored.
Type  I <command> <return>  to replace it with another command,
or  <return>  to continue without it.

Here is the code based off the second solution:

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\@chapapp}{Step}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\chapter{How to sow seeds}

\end{document}
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    The memoir package emulates a lot of other packages or has built in support for geometry and other macros. And it provides its own page header/footer commands. Perhaps there's no need to use fancyhdr here at all. –  Jan 14 '16 at 20:31
  • Fancyhdr has nothing to do with the chapter name, and as Christian says memoir has its own pagestyle system so fancyhdr should not be used. You are looking for \chaptername, note: if you are using babel as well then the any change to \chaptername should go into \captions<language> via \addto\captions<language>{...} – daleif Jan 14 '16 at 21:44
  • @daleif: I think, you should provide the answer ;-) –  Jan 14 '16 at 21:49

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First of, since memoir has its own build in pagestyle system there is no reason to use fancyhdr with memoir.

Second the chapter language does not have anything to do with fancyhdr or \@chapapp for that matter.

The word current word for chapter is stored in \chaptername. \@chapapp is a special macro that returns \chaptername whenever appendix is not active.

Note: if you're also using babel you ought to add your change to \chaptername to the \captionsXXX macro belonging to the relevant language, for example:

\addto\captionsenglish{
   \renewcommand\chaptername{Step} 
}

if you are using babel with english

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