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BAKERY
Definition of BAKERY
noun
A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Particularly: “Were Swedish/Danish bageri calqued from English or vice versa? What is the history?” Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
37th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (52)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BAKERY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BAKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BAKERY starts with B and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABEKRY - 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.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found BAKERY?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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