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CREPE
Definition of CREPE
noun
A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French crêpe, from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp and crape.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CREPE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 26 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 50, 9 July 2026.
Built from these letters
CREPE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CREPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found CREPE?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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