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MANCHET
Definition of MANCHET
noun
A type of high-quality bread or cracker made from flour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English manchet, of unknown origin; compare cheat (“low-quality bread”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.6%
of traced words share this origin (2,231)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MANCHET · 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.
MANCHET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 11 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 103, 31 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MANCHET starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEHMNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MANCHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MANCHET?
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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