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CUPEL
Definition of CUPEL
noun
A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French coupelle, from Medieval Latin cūpella, from Latin cūpa (“cask”) + -ella (“-elle: forming feminine diminutives”). Equivalent to cup + -el.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CUPEL · 3 relatives 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.
CUPEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 51, 10 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 51, 10 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CUPEL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CELPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CUPEL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 51
Could you have found CUPEL?
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 51 - and most players walked straight past it.
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