mazurek
noun
mazurek is a noun meaning “A kind of Polish cake baked at Easter, typically made from pastry with a layer of butter sponge cake on top, sometimes affixed with marmalade, and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-Z-U-R-E-K and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mazurek is mazureks.
What does mazurek mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of Polish cake baked at Easter, typically made from pastry with a layer of butter sponge cake on top, sometimes affixed with marmalade, and topped with nut-based icing and candied fruits.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce mazurek?
Mazurek 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).
Forms of mazurek
- mazureks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mazurek?
Mazurek appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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).
Where does mazurek come from?
From Polish mazurek.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).