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SUGAR

/ˈʃʊɡə/5 letters

Definition of SUGAR

noun

A food consisting of small, sweet crystals, principally of sucrose, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used as sweetener and preservative.

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Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery and sucro-. The verb is from Middle English sugren, from the noun.

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.

SUGAR in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 54 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 14 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
22
First board
99
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.

Built from these letters

SUGAR
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SUGAR starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AGRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SUGAR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SUGARSSUGARYSUGAREDSUGARERSUGARERSSUGARIERSUGARINGSUGARALLYSUGARBUSHSUGARCANESUGARCOATSUGARIEST

Could you have found SUGAR?

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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.

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