Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bake

/beɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.91 in modern English

Syllables
bake
IPA
/beɪk/
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

verb

To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

Intransitive verb

verb

To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

Intransitive verb

verb

To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

Intransitive verb; Slang

verb

To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.

verb

To heat or dry.

Intransitive verb

verb

To heat or dry.

Transitive verb

verb

To heat or dry.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₃g- Proto-Germanic *bakaną Proto-West Germanic *bakan Old English bacan Middle English baken English bake From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: baken, bacan, *bakan, *bakaną, *bʰeh₃g-

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /beɪk/
  • British English: /beɪk/

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Food, Medicine.

Inflected Forms

bakes (present, singular) baking (participle, present) baked (past) book (dialectal, past) baked (participle, past) book (dialectal, participle) baken (dialectal, participle) bakes (plural)

Derived Forms

bakable bakeability bakeable bakeaholic bakeboard bakecraft baked bakehead bakehouse bakemeat bakeoff bakeoven

Phrases

bake bread bake in bake-off bake off bake out bake oven bake sale bake someone's bread

Frequently Paired Words

roast bake-danuki

Synonyms

fire broil

Rhymes With

make take break lake wake mistake fake cake sake shake snake jake

Questions

How do you pronounce bake?
The recorded pronunciation is /beɪk/.
What does bake mean?
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
Where does bake come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce bake

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