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SUGARCOAT
Definition of SUGARCOAT
verb
To coat with sugar.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill).
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.
SUGARCOAT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 22, 11 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
SUGARCOAT starts with S and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACGORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SUGARC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found SUGARCOAT?
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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