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CROISSANT
Definition of CROISSANT
noun
A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,087)
branch · 15.4% 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.
CROISSANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CROISSANT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACINORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CROISS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CROISSANT?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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