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nake

/neɪk/verb

nake is a verb meaning “To make naked; to bare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-K-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does nake mean?

verb

  1. 1

    ScotlandTo make naked; to bare.

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

How do you pronounce nake?

  • /neɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nake.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of nake

  • nakes present, singular, he/she/it
  • naking participle, present
  • naked participle, past

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

How common is nake?

Nake appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).

Nake in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishdesnudar, calatear

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 nake come from?

From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷ- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse nǫkkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.

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