Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cake
Participle: caked
Gerund: caking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cake |
| you | cake |
| he;she;it | cakes |
| we | cake |
| you | cake |
| they | cake |
Perfect
| I | have caked |
| you | have caked |
| he;she;it | has caked |
| we | have caked |
| you | have caked |
| they | have caked |
Past
| I | caked |
| you | caked |
| he;she;it | caked |
| we | caked |
| you | caked |
| they | caked |
Pluperfect
| I | had caked |
| you | had caked |
| he;she;it | had caked |
| we | had caked |
| you | had caked |
| they | had caked |
Future
| I | will cake |
| you | will cake |
| he;she;it | will cake |
| we | will cake |
| you | will cake |
| they | will cake |
Future Perfect
| I | will have caked |
| you | will have caked |
| he;she;it | will have caked |
| we | will have caked |
| you | will have caked |
| they | will have caked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cake |
| you | cake |
| he;she;it | cake |
| we | cake |
| you | cake |
| they | cake |
Perfect
| I | have caked |
| you | have caked |
| he;she;it | have caked |
| we | have caked |
| you | have caked |
| they | have caked |
Imperfect
| I | caked |
| you | caked |
| he;she;it | caked |
| we | caked |
| you | caked |
| they | caked |
Pluperfect
| I | had caked |
| you | had caked |
| he;she;it | had caked |
| we | had caked |
| you | had caked |
| they | had caked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cake |
| you | would cake |
| he;she;it | would cake |
| we | would cake |
| you | would cake |
| they | would cake |
Perfect
| I | would have caked |
| you | would have caked |
| he;she;it | would have caked |
| we | would have caked |
| you | would have caked |
| they | would have caked |
Imperative
| you | cake |
| we | Let's cake |
| you | cake |
Verbs conjugated like 'cake'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cake'
bake,
cade,
cage,
cane,
cape,
care,
case,
cave,
coke,
crake,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1230, from O.N.
kaka "cake," from W.Gmc.
*kokon-, from PIE base
*gag-, *gog- "something round, lump of something." Not related to L.
coquere "to cook," as formerly supposed. Replaced its O.E. cognate,
coecel. Originally (until c.1420) "a flat, round loaf of bread."
Caked "thickly encrusted" (with) is from 1922.
Let them eat cake is from Rousseau's "Confessions," in reference to an incident c.1740, when it was already proverbial, long before Marie Antoinette. The "cake" in question was not a confection, but a poor man's food.
"What man, I trow ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake?" ["The Proverbs & Epigrams of John Heywood," 1562]
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
4. Old Norse kakabor.
5. Middle English cake
6. English cake
7. From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).
Sample Sentences
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His shoes are caked with mud.
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You will remember that Stranger Things was initially conceived as a one-off, and its success forced the Duffer Brothers to cake on endless new lore to keep the engine running. [2025 December 26, Stuart Heritage, “Stranger Things season five vol 2 review – the fact that this isn’t unbearable is a miracle”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]