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DOUCEUR
Definition of DOUCEUR
noun
Sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French douceur (“sweetness”), from Old French dolçor, dulcur, etc., from Latin dulcōr + -em, from dulcis (“sweet”). Naturalized in Middle English as douceoure, dousour but treated as a French loanword from the 17th century onward. Doublet of dulcour.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOUCEUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 64, 23 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 64, 23 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOUCEUR starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read CDEORUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found DOUCEUR?
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 64 - and most players walked straight past it.
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