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COFFEE
Definition of COFFEE
noun
A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Dutch koffie, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa). Doublet of café and caffè and cognate with the words for "coffee" in other major European languages, most of which are derived from the Turkish and Italian words.
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.
COFFEE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
COFFEE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEFFO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. F and E appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start COFFEE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found COFFEE?
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 118 - and most players walked straight past it.
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