bake
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
Verb 3 meanings
To cook using an oven, especially baked goods.
“I baked a delicious cherry pie.”
To heat or dry.
“The clay baked in the sun.”
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
Noun 4 meanings
The act of cooking food by baking.
Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
Any food item that is baked, such as a pastry.
A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
“an oyster bake on the shore”
Etymology
From Middle English baken, from Old English bacan (“to bake”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną (“to bake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₃g- (“to roast, bake”).
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BAKE at a glance
BAKE has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + K 5 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,998 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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