cake
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
Noun 4 meanings
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
“an oatmeal cake”
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
“buckwheat cakes”
A block of any various dense materials.
“a cake of soap”
Verb 3 meanings
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
“His shoes are caked with mud.”
To form into a cake, or mass.
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
Etymology
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).
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CAKE at a glance
CAKE has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,762 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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