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CRUMPETS
Definition of CRUMPETS
noun
plural 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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Word DNA
CRUMPETS inherits its ancestry from its root, CRUMPET.
How it is built
Same root, CRUMPET · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Welsh.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRUMPETS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 188 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRUMPETS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEMPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 CRUMPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
Could you have found CRUMPETS?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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