bake
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When bake helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A B E K
Two-Letter Start
BA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
KE
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- BA start
- KE ending
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- bake is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, b, e, k plus any remaining hive letters.
- The KE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BA start.
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Pronunciation
noun
The act of cooking food by baking.
noun
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
noun
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
noun
(Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
noun
Any item that is baked.
verb
(with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
"I baked a delicious cherry pie."
verb
(with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
"The cake baked at 350°F."
verb
To be warmed to drying and hardening.
"The clay baked in the sun."
verb
To dry by heat.
"They baked the electrical parts lightly to remove moisture."
verb
To be hot.
"I'm baking after that workout in the gym."
verb
To cause to be hot.
verb
To smoke marijuana.
verb
To harden by cold.
verb
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
verb
(with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.