pancake

Other forms of pancake

plural

pancakes·

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 pancake

What does pancake mean?

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

How many syllables are in pancake?

pancake has 2 syllables: pan-cake. The stress falls on "pan". In IPA it is /ˈpænˌkeɪk/.

What is another word for pancake?

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

pancake 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 pancake?

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