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DARIOLE
Definition of DARIOLE
noun
A dessert consisting of puff pastry filled with almond cream, baked in an oven.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French dariole, from Old Occitan daurar (“to brown”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old Occitan
- French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
49th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (16)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DARIOLE · 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.
DARIOLE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 83, 11 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DARIOLE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEILOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DARIOLE?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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