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pannekoek

noun

pannekoek is a noun meaning “A form of Dutch pancake, being thin and wide and optionally made with apples or a variety of other ingredients” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-N-N-E-K-O-E-K, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pannekoek is pannekoeken.

What does pannekoek mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A form of Dutch pancake, being thin and wide and optionally made with apples or a variety of other ingredients

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

Forms of pannekoek

  • pannekoeken plural
  • pannenkoek

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

How common is pannekoek?

Pannekoek 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 pannekoek come from?

From Dutch pannekoek (superseded spelling of pannenkoek). Doublet of pancake.

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