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NOCAKES
Definition of NOCAKES
Wiktionary has no entry for NOCAKES itself. This is its base word, NOCAKE.
noun
Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for NOCAKE.
A respelling, probably influenced by cake, of nokehick, nokehike, which derives from an Algonquian language, probably Narragansett nokehick or Massachusett nookhik (“nocake”, literally “(that which is) pounded till soft”); the word is related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”), and English rokeag and yokeag.
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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.
NOCAKES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 77, 5 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 45 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 77, 5 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOCAKES starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEKNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start NOCAKE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOCAKES?
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