devil's food

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   very dark chocolate cake

   Synonymsdevil's food cake

   Broaderchocolate cake

Questions about devil's food

What does devil's food mean?

devil's food means "very dark chocolate cake".

What is another word for devil's food?

Close synonyms include devil's food 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 devil's food a common word?

devil's food 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.