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BUFFET
Definition of BUFFET
noun
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BUFFET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 118, 15 September 2026.
Built from these letters
BUFFET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read BEFFTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start BUFFET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BUFFET?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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