bake

Meanings

Plural: bakes

Verb

cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- "bake the potatoes"
prepare with dry heat in an oven
- "bake a cake"
heat by a natural force
be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun
To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
To be cooked in an oven.
To be warmed to drying and hardening.
To dry by heat.
To be hot.
To cause to be hot.
To smoke marijuana.
To harden by cold.
To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
To incorporate into something greater.

Noun

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.
A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten mainly in Barbados, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or sometimes roasted).

Origin / 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”).
Cognate with West Frisian bakke (“to bake”), Dutch bakken (“to bake”), Low German backen (“to bake”), German backen (“to bake”), Norwegian Bokmål bake (“to bake”), Danish bage (“to bake”), Swedish baka (“to bake”), Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “roast”, verb).

Synonyms

broil

Scrabble Score: 10

bake is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
bake is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bake is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

bake is a valid Words With Friends word