cake
French, noun/kɛk/
cake is spelled C-A-K-E (4 letters) and appears 2.7 times per million words in written French, the 17,096th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cake is a French masculine noun meaning “fruitcake (containing rum)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Gâteau en forme de parallélépipède rectangle, aux raisins secs et aux fruits confits”.
What does cake mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefruitcake (containing rum)
- 2
masculinequick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gâteau en forme de parallélépipède rectangle, aux raisins secs et aux fruits confits. 2. Gâteau salé ayant cette même forme, et pouvant contenir des morceaux de viande, d’olives, etc. 3. Boue durcie. 4. Matière fécale.
noun: 1. ou Mec, kéké, cacou.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cake
- cakes plural
- quèque
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cake?
- /kɛk/
- \kɛk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cake
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cake in French?
cake appears 2.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).