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DOUGHNUT
Definition of DOUGHNUT
noun
A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
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Where it comes from
From dough + nut, 1809 because originally small, nut-sized balls of fried dough, or, more likely, from nut in the earlier sense of "small rounded cake or cookie", with the toroidal shape becoming common in the twentieth century. First attested in Knickerbocker’s History of New York, by Washington Irving, 1809.
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.
DOUGHNUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 68 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 29, 18 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOUGHNUT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DGHNOTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start DOUGHN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found DOUGHNUT?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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