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QUICHE

/kiːʃ/6 letters

Definition of QUICHE

noun

A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake. The sexually alluring sense originates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

QUICHE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 97 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 97
Its 13 boards, across 97 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
13
Boards found on
10
First board
96
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.

Built from these letters

QUICHE
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

QUICHE starts with Q and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEHIQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start QUICHE

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