# baker's vs bakery

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### baker's
*adjective · frequency rank #27,733*
Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.)

### bakery
*noun · IPA /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ · frequency rank #11,650*
A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baker-s-vs-bakery