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BAKED

/beɪkt/5 letters

Definition of BAKED

verb

simple past and past participle of bake

BAKE

verb

To cook using an oven, especially baked goods. To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).

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Word DNA

BAKED inherits its ancestry from its root, BAKE.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Proto-Germanic
  3. Old English
  4. Middle English
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,843)

How it is built

verb1 syllable

Same root, BAKE · 6 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish.

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Rarity score
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BAKED in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 168
Its 12 boards, across 168 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
12
Boards found on
42
First board
151
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.

First found by a player on Day 42, 1 July 2026.

Built from these letters

BAKED
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

BAKED starts with B and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDEK - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found BAKED?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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