bacon
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
Noun 3 meanings
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
Thin slices of the above in long strips.
A similar product made without meat, or from meat other than pork.
“beef bacon; vegetarian bacon”
Etymology
From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more.
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BACON at a glance
BACON has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + C 3 + O 1 + N 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,477 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with bacon
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- BARON7
- BATON7
- MACON9
- BASON7
- RACON7
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