wedding-cake
"wedding-cake" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wedding-cake” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extremely ornate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wedding-cake · wedding-cake · English
wedding-cake · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" 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 | wedding-cake |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wedding-cake” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wedding-cake is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Extremely ornate.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for wedding-cake in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: The adjective is from wedding cake. The correct English form is wedding-cake, spelled W-E-D-D-I-N-G---C-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Extremely ornate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wedding-cake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried.
Etymology
The adjective is from wedding cake.
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.