bake

Other forms of bake

past tense

baked·

present participle

baking·

third person

bakes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bake

What does bake mean?

bake means "cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bake?

bake has 1 syllable: bake. In IPA it is /ˈbeɪk/.

What is another word for bake?

Close synonyms include broil, broil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bake a common word?

bake is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.