hot cake vs pancake

hot cake and pancake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hot cake	Yes	No	No	No
pancake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hot cake and pancake are synonyms defined as:

hot cake and pancake: a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Other synonyms of hot cake include battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake.

hot cake (noun)	pancake (noun)
a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle	a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle