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say it: rayk
rake is a verb and noun meaning "move through with or as if with a rake". It carries 9 recorded senses.
examine hastily
“She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi”
a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.