bakery
/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/noun
bakery is spelled B-A-K-E-R-Y: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bakery means “A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bakery is bakeries.
How many letters and syllables are in bakery?
| Letters | 6: B-A-K-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bakery?
Bakery appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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).
How do you pronounce bakery?
- /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/
- /ˈbeɪk.ɹi/
Bakery has 3 syllables (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). Recordings: En-us-bakery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bakery?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bakery.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: breaky.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of bakery
- bakeries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bakery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
- 2
The trade of a baker.
- 3
USBaked goods.
Fresh bakery!
- 4
slangA large pair of buttocks.
He's got a whole damn bakery back there!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate bakery?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of bakery: bkry..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bakery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | boulangerie |
| German | Bäckerei, Backstube |
| Portuguese | padaria , panificação |
| Spanish | panadería, tahona, horno |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bakery come from?
From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).