hake
/heɪk/noun
hake is a noun meaning “A hook; a pot-hook” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-K-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hake is hakes.
What does hake mean?
noun
- 1
A hook; a pot-hook.
- 2
A kind of weapon; a pike.
- 3
(in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
- 4
One of several species of saltwater gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
- 5
A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake on the yard. … take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the hake to dry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hake?
- /heɪk/
Hake 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hake.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hake
- hakes plural
- haak
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hake?
Hake appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd 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).
Hake in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | merlu |
| German | Hechtdorsch, Seehecht |
| Portuguese | merluza |
| Spanish | merluza, pescadilla |
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 hake come from?
From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).