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ANTEATER
Definition of ANTEATER
noun
Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).
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Where it comes from
From ant + eater, from their typical diet.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANTEATER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANTEATER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AAEENRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, T and E appear more than once.
Words that start ANTEAT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANTEATER?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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