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CASSOULET

9 letters

Definition of CASSOULET

noun

A rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from French cassoulet, from Occitan caçolet.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. French
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

French

Deepest traced root

5th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

5.3%

of traced words share this origin (4,529)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CASSOULET · 1 relative in the game

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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.

CASSOULET in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 175
Its 2 boards, across 175 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
162
First board
172
Latest board
10
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

jluck

on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CASSOULET
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CASSOULET starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACELOSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start CASSOU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found CASSOULET?

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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.

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