johnnycake

Questions about johnnycake

What does johnnycake mean?

johnnycake means "cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)".

How many syllables are in johnnycake?

johnnycake has 3 syllables: john-ny-cake. The stress falls on "john".

What is another word for johnnycake?

Close synonyms include johnny cake, journey cake. 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 johnnycake a common word?

johnnycake 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.