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GATEAU

6 letters

Definition of GATEAU

noun

A rich, usually iced, cake.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French gâteau. Doublet of wastel.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GATEAU in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 13 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
13
First board
102
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 13, 2 June 2026.

Built from these letters

GATEAU
6
Letters
4
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

GATEAU starts with G and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AAEGTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start GATEAU

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.

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