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PANCAKE
Definition of PANCAKE
noun
A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular: An thin batter cake similar to a crepe, typically unleavened. A leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”). The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.
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.
PANCAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANCAKE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEKNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PANCAK
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found PANCAKE?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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