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CULINARY
Definition of CULINARY
adjective
Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).
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.
CULINARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 48 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CULINARY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACILNRUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CULINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found CULINARY?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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