tteok

Meanings

nountteok (plural tteoks or tteok)

plural tteoks

A type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour.
But my eye was immediately drawn to the add-on: country ham with tteok and honey.
2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022
Synonyms: dduk, toppoki

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour.

Similar

dduk toppoki

Also see

dduk toppoki

Origin

Korean떡
Korean떡
Englishtteok

Borrowed from Korean 떡 (tteok).

More words from Korean

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 打糕, 米糕

打糕 (dǎgāo)a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour
米糕 (mǐgāo)a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour
蒸糕 (zhēnggāo)a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour

Indonesian tok

toka type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour

Japanese トック

トック (tokku)a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour

Korean 떡

떡 (tteok)a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour

Russian тток

тток (ttok)a type of sweet cake from Korea, made from rice flour

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tteok

truck luck chuck stuck struck duck tuck puck pluck potluck huck amok yuk gluck ruck uck cluck shuck druk bruck unstuck Tkachuk Zuck geoduck

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Sounds the same

tuck (one pronunciation)duck (one pronunciation)

Cite this entry

APA

tteok. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tteok

MLA

“tteok.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tteok. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tteok,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tteok.

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