# bakery

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/ · frequency rank #11,650

## Definitions
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. Baked goods.
4. A large pair of buttocks.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **Barry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-barry)
- **Bauer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-bauer)
- **biker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-biker)
- **Bayer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-bayer)
- **bakes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-bakes)
- **barely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-barely)
- **banker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-banker)
- **Bayern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-bayern)
- **barker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-barker)
- **beaker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-beaker)
- **bowery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-bowery)
- **battery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-battery)
- **bravery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-bravery)
- **Blakely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakery-vs-blakely)
- **bake** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bake-vs-bakery)
- **baker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baker-vs-bakery)
- **baked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baked-vs-bakery)
- **Bakers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bakers-vs-bakery)
- **backer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/backer-vs-bakery)
- **baker's** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baker-s-vs-bakery)

## Common misspellings (9)
`abkery`, `baekry`, `bakerry`, `bakeryy`, `bakeyr`, `bakkery`, `bakrey`, `bbakery`, `bkaery`

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