cake
\kɛk\
The verdict
“cake” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,085
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gâteau en forme de parallélépipède rectangle, aux raisins secs et aux fruits confits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cake · cake · French
cake · rank #17,085 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,085
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH biscuit
Nearest frequency peer: biscuit (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « cake »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bicyclette
bicyclette
82,919 corpus weight
- bienveillant
bienveillant
82,918 corpus weight
- biscuit
biscuit
82,917 corpus weight
- cake
cake
82,916 corpus weight
- calcaires
calcaires
82,915 corpus weight
- capitalisat…
capitalisation
82,914 corpus weight
What this shows « cake » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɛk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cake »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cake (IPA \kɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,085 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cake, with forms such as "acke", "caek", and "cakke". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ce", "cas", "car", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cake, spelled C-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Gâteau en forme de parallélépipède rectangle, aux raisins secs et aux fruits confits.
- 2Gâteau salé ayant cette même forme, et pouvant contenir des morceaux de viande, d’olives, etc.
- 3Boue durcie.
- 4Matière fécale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Déposer la torsade dans un moule à cake beurré.
On trouvait aussi chez elles des mangues vertes, […]. Cela et d’autres choses encore : des cakes à la coco ; des bonbons piments, purée de haricots blancs agrémentée de safran et de piments verts; du pain tartiné d’achards, légumes mijotés dans une sauce au safran, aux oignons et aux piments verts.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acke
- caek
- cakke
- ccake
- ckae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cake - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).