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CAFETERIA
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).
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.
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.
Also on
Built from these letters
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.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found CAFETERIA?
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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