fruitcake

Other forms of fruitcake

plural

fruitcakes·

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 fruitcake

What does fruitcake mean?

fruitcake means "a whimsically eccentric person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fruitcake?

fruitcake has 2 syllables: fruit-cake. The stress falls on "fruit". In IPA it is /ˈfɹutˌkeɪk/.

What is another word for fruitcake?

Close synonyms include crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball. 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 fruitcake a common word?

fruitcake is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fruitcake?

7 words rhyme with fruitcake. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.