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BAKE
Definition of BAKE
verb
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
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Where it comes from
From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”). Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BAKE starts with B and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEK - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BAKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BAKE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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