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caked

/keɪkt/adjective, verb

caked is spelled C-A-K-E-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, caked means “Congealed into a cakelike consistency; (of something covered in such a material) Coated with such a congealed mass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in caked?

Letters5: C-A-K-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 41,660th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is caked?

Caked appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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 caked?

  • /keɪkt/

Caked 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). Recordings: En-au-caked.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of caked

  • more caked comparative
  • most caked superlative

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

What does caked mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Congealed into a cakelike consistency; (of something covered in such a material) Coated with such a congealed mass.

    Great, I had to ride in the rain, and now my bike is caked in mud.

  2. 2

    slanghaving a defined butt

  3. 3

    slangEmpty with nothing left to smoke but ash.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of cake (a form of cake)

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

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