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CAFETERIA

/ˌka.fə.ˈtɪə̯.ɹi.ə/9 letters

Definition of CAFETERIA

noun

A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

CAFETERIA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 106
Its 7 boards, across 106 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
29
First board
104
Latest board
42
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.

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Built from these letters

CAFETERIA
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CAFETERIA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACEEFIRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and E appear more than once.

Words that start CAFETE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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