flannel-cake

Questions about flannel-cake

What does flannel-cake mean?

flannel-cake means "a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle".

How many syllables are in flannel-cake?

flannel-cake has 3 syllables and divides as flan-nel--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 flannel-cake?

Close synonyms include pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack. 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 flannel-cake a common word?

flannel-cake 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.