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HOECAKES
Definition of HOECAKES
noun
plural of hoecake
noun
A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
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Word DNA
HOECAKES inherits its ancestry from its root, HOECAKE.
How it is built
Same root, HOECAKE · 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.
HOECAKES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOECAKES starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEEHKOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Could you have found HOECAKES?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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