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CUSTARDS
Definition of CUSTARDS
noun
plural of custard
noun
A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
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Word DNA
CUSTARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, CUSTARD.
How it is built
Same root, CUSTARD · 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.
CUSTARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CUSTARDS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDRSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Words that start CUSTAR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CUSTARDS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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