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CUPCAKES
Definition of CUPCAKES
noun
plural of cupcake
noun
A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
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Word DNA
CUPCAKES inherits its ancestry from its root, CUPCAKE.
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.
CUPCAKES 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 33 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
CUPCAKES starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACCEKPSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Could you have found CUPCAKES?
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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