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KITCHEN
Definition of KITCHEN
noun
A room or area for preparing food.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English kichene, kichen, from Old English cyċen, cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, a borrowing from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen; cuisine”), from coquō (“to cook”), from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). In other languages, the cognate term often refers both to the room and the type of cooking. In English, the distinction is generally made via the etymological twins kitchen (“room”) (Latin via Germanic) and cuisine (“type of cooking”) (Latin via French).
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.
KITCHEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
KITCHEN starts with K and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read CEHIKNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start KITCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found KITCHEN?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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