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CROUTON
Definition of CROUTON
noun
A small, often seasoned, piece of dry or fried bread.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French croûton. Compare croute.
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 (2,177)
branch · 15.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CROUTON · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CROUTON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CROUTON starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CNOORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O 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.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found CROUTON?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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