English pronunciation · Words Starting with B
Bake Pronunciation
Bake is pronounced BAYK, IPA /ˈbeɪk/.
BAYK
US /ˈbeɪk/ · UK /ˈbeɪk/
Syllables: BAYK (1 syllable)
verb; also noun: To cook food with dry heat in an oven.
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Bake in a Sentence
- I bake bread on Sundays.
- Bake for forty minutes and let it cool in the tin.
- There is a charity bake at the hall on Saturday.
Common Mispronunciations of Bake
Not BEK
The vowel is the long ay of day, a glide rather than a single sound. A short e gives the word beck.
Not BAY-kuh
One syllable, ending on the k. The final e is silent and only tells you the vowel before it is long.
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