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5-letter words (1 found)

BAKEN,

4-letter words (8 found)

BAKE,BANE,BANK,BEAK,BEAN,KANE,NABE,NABK,

3-letter words (15 found)

AKE,ANE,BAE,BAN,BEN,EAN,KAB,KAE,KEA,KEB,KEN,NAB,NAE,NEB,NEK,

2-letter words (10 found)

AB,AE,AN,BA,BE,EA,EN,KA,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 35 words from baken according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of baken

baken

Etymology

From Middle English baken, from Old English bacen, ġebacen, past participle of bacan (“to bake”). Cognate with Scots baken (“baked”), Dutch gebakken (“baked”). More at bake.

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: bacon

Verb

baken

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) alternative past participle of bake; baked.

Usage notes

Though the use of baken as a strong past participle for bake is now restricted to northern English dialects, it was formerly more widespread. For example, it is the predominant form in the King James Bible.

Anagrams

  • Bekan, Benak, banke, e-bank

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch baken, from Old Frisian bāken. Displaced Middle Dutch boken, from Old Dutch *bōkan. Both forms originate from Proto-Germanic *baukną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaːkə(n)/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ken
  • Rhymes: -aːkən

Noun

baken n (plural bakens, diminutive bakentje n)

  1. beacon

Derived terms

  • bakenen
  • lichtbaken

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German bachan, bahhan; from Proto-West Germanic *bakan; from Proto-Germanic *bakaną. Cognate with German backen, English bake, Dutch bakken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaːken/, [ˈbaːkən]

Verb

baken (third-person singular present baakt, past participle gebak, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to bake

Conjugation

Related terms

  • Bäcker
  • Bakstuff

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic *bakan, from Proto-Germanic *bakaną, see also Dutch bakken, German backen, Old Norse baka, Danish bage, and also Ancient Greek φώγω (phṓgō, “to roast”).

Alternative forms

  • bakyn, bake, bakenn

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaːkən/

Verb

baken (third-person singular simple present baketh, present participle bakynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative book, past participle baken)

  1. To bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of bread, pastry, etc, or meals involving that.
  2. To undergo or experienced baking; to be baked or cooked in an oven.
  3. To heat up; to process or work (food or other items) by heating or drying out.
  4. (rare, figurative) To burn in the fires of Hell.
  5. (rare, figurative) To cause one's own pain or torment.
Usage notes

This verb started to become weak in late Middle English, but was predominantly strong.

Conjugation
Related terms
  • bake mete
  • baken (noun)
  • bakere (“baker”)
  • bakestere (“baker, baxter”)
  • bakhous
  • bakynge
Descendants
  • English: bake
  • Scots: bake
  • → Irish: bácáil
References
  • “bāken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-14.

Etymology 2

From baken, past participle of the verb baken (“to bake”).

Alternative forms

  • bakyn, bake

Noun

baken

  1. (rare) A meal made with pastry.
Descendants
  • English: bake
  • Scots: bake, baik
References
  • “bāke(n, ppl. as n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

baken m

  1. definite singular of bak

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • baket

Noun

baken m or n

  1. definite masculine singular of bak

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch baken, whence English beacon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.kɛn/
  • Rhymes: -akɛn
  • Syllabification: ba‧ken

Noun

baken m inan

  1. (nautical) Alternative form of bakan

Declension

Further reading

  • baken in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

baken

  1. definite singular of bak c (“butt, behind, ass”)
  2. definite plural of bak n (“baking”)

Source: wiktionary.org