flapcake

Other forms of flapcake

plural

flapcakes·

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 flapcake

What does flapcake mean?

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

How many syllables are in flapcake?

flapcake has 2 syllables and divides as flap-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 flapcake?

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

flapcake is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.