teacake

Other forms of teacake

plural

teacakes·

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 teacake

What does teacake mean?

teacake means "flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teacake?

teacake has 3 syllables: te-a-cake. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for teacake?

Close synonyms include tea biscuit. 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 teacake a common word?

teacake 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.