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CRUMPET
Definition of CRUMPET
noun
A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
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Where it comes from
First appears c. the 17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. An alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampouezh (“crepe, pancake”) and Welsh crempog (“pancake”). The sense of a “desirable woman” is attested since 1936, possibly as Cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“a loose woman, a prostitute”) (itself possibly Cockney rhyming slang for heart or sweetheart). Note that muffin has a similar sense, and that, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Muffins and crumpets was a familiar street-cry in the UK.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Welsh
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
34th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (59)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CRUMPET · 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.
CRUMPET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 117 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 143, 10 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CRUMPET starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEMPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CRUMPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
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