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CLAFOUTIS
Definition of CLAFOUTIS
noun
A French dessert made by baking fresh fruit (traditionally cherries) with a batter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
CLAFOUTIS carries a second meaning.
noun
A baked dessert composed of a layer of fresh fruit topped with a thick batter.
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French clafoutis.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,118)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CLAFOUTI · 1 relative in the game
CLAFOUTIS in a sentence
“A clafoutis is somewhere between a cake and a custard.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLAFOUTIS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 86 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 45, 4 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 45, 4 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLAFOUTIS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACFILOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 45
Could you have found CLAFOUTIS?
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 45 - and most players walked straight past it.
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