lake

Other forms of lake

plural

lakes·

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 lake

What does lake mean?

lake means "a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lake?

lake has 1 syllable: lake. In IPA it is /ˈleɪk/.

Is lake a common word?

lake is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.