cake: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 10 letter points · starts with C · ends with E
Meaning of cake
noun
- countable, uncountable
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- countable, uncountable
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
Example: an oatmeal cake
- countable, uncountable
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
Example: buckwheat cakes
- countable, uncountable
A block of any various dense materials.
Example: a cake of soap
Listed forms: cakes.
Source: Wiktionary — cake.
verb
- transitive
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
Example: His shoes are caked with mud.
- transitive
To form into a cake, or mass.
- intransitive
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
Listed forms: cakes, caking, caked.
Source: Wiktionary — cake.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cake.
noun
a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
noun
small flat mass of chopped or ground food
verb
form a coat over
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cake in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cake
C(3) + A(1) + K(5) + E(1) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of cake
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from cake
3 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cake. Showing up to 24, longest first.