# cake

> English word · Noun · IPA /keɪk/ · frequency rank #2,822

## Definitions
1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
4. A block of any various dense materials.
5. Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
6. Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
8. A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
9. A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
10. A foolish person.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
Old Norse kakabor.
Middle English cake
English cake
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).

## Easily confused with
- **CE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-ce)
- **can** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-can)
- **car** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-car)
- **cat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cat)
- **cap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cap)
- **cam** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cam)
- **cal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cal)
- **cue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cue)
- **cas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cas)
- **che** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-che)
- **Cao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cao)
- **Coe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-coe)
- **cee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cee)
- **CME** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cme)
- **CTE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cte)
- **CBE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cbe)
- **cay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cay)
- **CSE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-cse)
- **caw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-caw)
- **come** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cake-vs-come)

## Common misspellings (5)
`acke`, `caek`, `cakke`, `ccake`, `ckae`

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