How to spell cake

Cake is spelled C-A-K-E.

hear itcake/keɪk/nounStarter

What it means: Baked goods made from flour, sugar, and eggs.

In a sentence: The birthday cake was pink and covered in sprinkles.

Same family: cakes, cupcake, pancake, fishcake. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Cake comes from Old Norse 'kaka', meaning a baked lump of dough. Over time, English speakers started using it for many small, flat patties of chopped food, like 'fish cakes' and 'potato cakes.'

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