Past tense of cake
regular verb
The past tense of cake is caked. The past participle is also caked.
Forms of cake
| Base form (V1) | cake /keɪk/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | caked /keɪkt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | caked /keɪkt/ |
| Present participle | caking /ˈkeɪkɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | cakes /keɪks/ |
Caked in a sentence
- His shoes are caked with mud.
- Great, I had to ride in the rain, and now my bike is caked in mud.From the entry caked
- Part of the fleece was caked with manure, so we had to clean it.From the entry caked
- The makeup was so overdone that it was caked on.From the entry caked
- His rugby boots were caked in mud after the game.From the entry rugby boot
Meaning of cake
- noun A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- noun A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- noun A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
Questions about the past tense of cake
- What is the past tense of cake?
- The past tense of cake is caked.
- What is the past participle of cake?
- The past participle of cake is caked.
- Is cake a regular or irregular verb?
- Cake is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cake (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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