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SCHNITZEL
Definition of SCHNITZEL
noun
A dish consisting of fried veal cutlet.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from German Schnitzel (“cutlet”).
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.
SCHNITZEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 69, 28 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 52 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCHNITZEL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read CEHILNSTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start SCHNIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found SCHNITZEL?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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