sake

Other forms of sake

plural

sakes·

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 sake

What does sake mean?

sake means "a reason for wanting something done". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sake?

sake has 1 syllable: sake. In IPA it is /ˈseɪk/.

What is another word for sake?

Close synonyms include interest, saki, rice beer. 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 sake a common word?

sake 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.

What rhymes with sake?

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