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cates

obsolete

cates is a noun meaning “Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-T-E-S and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does cates mean?

noun

  1. 1

    archaicProvisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce cates?

    Cates has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is cates?

    Cates appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does cates come from?

    Compare acates, and see cater.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).