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cake

The correct spelling is cake.

How to pronounce cake

/keɪk/
noun

IPA: /keɪk/

Say it like: Cak-e

The correct spelling is cake. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. For example: "a johnnycake"

Usage Examples

a johnnycake

buckwheat cakes

a cake of sand

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  2. 2.A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
  3. 3.A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
  4. 4.A block of any of various dense materials.
  5. 5.A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

verb

  1. 1.Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  2. 2.To form into a cake, or mass.
  3. 3.To cackle like a goose.

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