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CUPCAKE
Definition of CUPCAKE
noun
A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cup + cake.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CUPCAKE · 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.
CUPCAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CUPCAKE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACCEKPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CUPCAKE?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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