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CUTLERY
Definition of CUTLERY
noun
Sharp cutting utensils.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English cotellerie, cutleri (“the cutler’s art or craft”), from Old French coutelerie (modern French coutellerie).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (848)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CUTLERY · 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.
CUTLERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 65 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CUTLERY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CELRTUY - 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 CUTLER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found CUTLERY?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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