hot cake

Questions about hot cake

What does hot cake mean?

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

What is another word for hot cake?

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

hot cake 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.