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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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