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say it: FLAY-kee
flaky is an adjective meaning "made of or resembling flakes". It is pronounced /ˈfleɪki/ — FLAY-kee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
“restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit”
“famed for his eccentric spelling”
“a freakish combination of styles”
“his off-the-wall antics”
“the outlandish clothes of teenagers”
“outre and affected stage antics”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flaky come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.