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CUCUMBER
Definition of CUCUMBER
noun
A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin. First attested in the late 14c. Displaced native English earthapple (see which for more), which has since acquired other senses.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (25,695)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CUCUMBER · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Old Occitan.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CUCUMBER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 153, 20 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CUCUMBER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BCCEMRUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and U appear more than once.
Could you have found CUCUMBER?
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 153 - and most players walked straight past it.
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