diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py b/pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py
index 0dfd721dee312..3c8eae36da99a 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/encoding.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def check_len(item, name: str) -> None:
         check_len(prefix_sep, "prefix_sep")
 
         if isinstance(prefix, str):
-            prefix = itertools.cycle([prefix])
+            prefix = itertools.repeat(prefix, len(data_to_encode.columns))
         if isinstance(prefix, dict):
             prefix = [prefix[col] for col in data_to_encode.columns]
 
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def check_len(item, name: str) -> None:
 
         # validate separators
         if isinstance(prefix_sep, str):
-            prefix_sep = itertools.cycle([prefix_sep])
+            prefix_sep = itertools.repeat(prefix_sep, len(data_to_encode.columns))
         elif isinstance(prefix_sep, dict):
             prefix_sep = [prefix_sep[col] for col in data_to_encode.columns]
 
@@ -211,7 +211,9 @@ def check_len(item, name: str) -> None:
             # columns to prepend to result.
             with_dummies = [data.select_dtypes(exclude=dtypes_to_encode)]
 
-        for col, pre, sep in zip(data_to_encode.items(), prefix, prefix_sep):
+        for col, pre, sep in zip(
+            data_to_encode.items(), prefix, prefix_sep, strict=True
+        ):
             # col is (column_name, column), use just column data here
             dummy = _get_dummies_1d(
                 col[1],
diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/melt.py b/pandas/core/reshape/melt.py
index 5d4b15c9a0ca3..aeab833878583 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/melt.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/melt.py
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ def melt(
         missing = idx == -1
         if missing.any():
             missing_labels = [
-                lab for lab, not_found in zip(labels, missing) if not_found
+                lab for lab, not_found in zip(labels, missing, strict=True) if not_found
             ]
             raise KeyError(
                 "The following id_vars or value_vars are not present in "
diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/pivot.py b/pandas/core/reshape/pivot.py
index 04c584c226aed..30b96c047aab8 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/pivot.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/pivot.py
@@ -1098,8 +1098,8 @@ def crosstab(
     from pandas import DataFrame
 
     data = {
-        **dict(zip(unique_rownames, index)),
-        **dict(zip(unique_colnames, columns)),
+        **dict(zip(unique_rownames, index, strict=True)),
+        **dict(zip(unique_colnames, columns, strict=True)),
     }
     df = DataFrame(data, index=common_idx)