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CUDGEL
Definition of CUDGEL
noun
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English kuggel, from Old English cyċġel (“a large stick, cudgel”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuggil, from Proto-Germanic *kuggilaz (“a knobbed instrument”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *kuggǭ (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewgʰ- (“swelling, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”), equivalent to cog + -el (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch coghele (“a stick with a rounded end”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CUDGEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 199 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CUDGEL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CDEGLU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CUDGEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found CUDGEL?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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