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CAKE
Definition of CAKE
noun
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 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
CAKE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEK - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CAKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CAKE?
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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