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CHAMPAGNE
Definition of CHAMPAGNE
noun
A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,787)
How it is built
Same root, CHAMPAGNE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHAMPAGNE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CHAMPAGNE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEGHMNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CHAMPA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found CHAMPAGNE?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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