coffeecake

Questions about coffeecake

What does coffeecake mean?

coffeecake means "a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee".

How many syllables are in coffeecake?

coffeecake has 3 syllables and divides as cof-fee-cake under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coffeecake?

Close synonyms include coffee cake. 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 coffeecake a common word?

coffeecake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.