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BEAUFFETS

9 letters

Definition of BEAUFFETS

noun

plural of beauffet

BUFFET · via beauffet

noun

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

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Word DNA

BEAUFFETS inherits its ancestry from its root, BUFFET.

Line of descent

  1. Old French
  2. Middle French
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Old French

Deepest traced root

9th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

2.9%

of traced words share this origin (2,437)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, BUFFET · 5 relatives in the game

Every Old French word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

BEAUFFETS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 171
Its one board, across 171 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
159
First board
12
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.

First found by a player on Day 159, 26 October 2026.

Built from these letters

BEAUFFETS
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

BEAUFFETS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEEFFSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and F appear more than once, including a double letter.

Words that start BEAUFF

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

BEAUFFET

Could you have found BEAUFFETS?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 159 - and most players walked straight past it.

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