Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "gingerbread" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

cake and gingerbread genderbread person gingerbread cookie gingerbread house gingerbread husband gingerbread man gingerbread nut gingerbread office gingerbread palm gingerbread plum gingerbread trap gingerbread tree gingerbread up gingerbread work gingerbreaded gingerbready lord of gingerbread man of gingerbread pepper-gingerbread take the gilt off the gingerbread

Derived From

ginger

Etymologically Related To

bread

Context

architecture food

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cake

Type Of (IsA)

cake food spicy treat tangible thing treat

Related Terms

ginger gingersnap

Related Terms

cookie cookie man fairy fairy tale flamboyant victorian era architectural style food food cookie house man something ersatz something showy but insubstantial tale type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger witch witch house

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.