piece of cake
/ˈpiːsə(v)ˈkeɪk/
"piece-of-cake" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piece of cake” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piece-of-cake · piece of cake · English
piece of cake · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piece of cake |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpiːsə(v)ˈkeɪk/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “piece of cake” in English
Rare enough to double-check
piece of cake is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpiːsə(v)ˈkeɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piece of cake, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Attested since 1936, originally in American English. Possibly from cakewalk, or the notion of facility that derives from many cakes having agreeable tastes, and hence being ‘easy’ to consume. Compare French être du gâteau (literally “to be a cake”), être de… The correct English form is piece of cake, spelled P-I-E-C-E- -O-F- -C-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1A job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, cake.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piece of cake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake.
Dennis's enthusiasm was difficult for Ryan to manage, but Javier's angsty Victorian-era man-pain is a piece of cake.
Etymology
Attested since 1936, originally in American English. Possibly from cakewalk, or the notion of facility that derives from many cakes having agreeable tastes, and hence being ‘easy’ to consume. Compare French être du gâteau (literally “to be a cake”), être de la tarte (literally “to be a pie”), both meaning "to be easy, to be a piece of cake".
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.