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 and divides as john-ny-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 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.