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HARDBAKE
Definition of HARDBAKE
noun
A hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hard + bake.
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.
HARDBAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 105, 2 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HARDBAKE starts with H and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AABDEHKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HARDBA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HARDBAKE?
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 105 - and most players walked straight past it.
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