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CRUDITE
Definition of CRUDITE
noun
Alternative form of crudité.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French crudité.
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
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,135)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRUDITE · 1 relative in the game
CRUDITE in a sentence
“I spent a few minutes while snacking on my crudite during the opening morbidly calculating how long it would take someone to grab a work of art from the downstairs gallery, bolt, and get on the next train.”
Monica Westin: Chicago Doesn't Need More Famous Artists, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRUDITE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 213 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 103, 31 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRUDITE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEIRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRUDIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CRUDITE?
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 103 - and most players walked straight past it.
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