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ARANCINI

8 letters

Definition of ARANCINI

noun

plural of arancino

ARANCINO

noun

A baked rice ball, filled with cheese or other sauce, originally from Sicily.

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Word DNA

ARANCINI inherits its ancestry from its root, ARANCINO.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.7%

of traced words share this origin (1,419)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ARANCINO · 1 relative in the game

ARANCINO

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

ARANCINI in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
139
First board
33
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.

First ever to find it

ferzy

on Day 139, 6 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARANCINI
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ARANCINI starts with A and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AACIINNR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, N and I appear more than once.

Words that start ARANCI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ARANCINO

Could you have found ARANCINI?

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 139 - and most players walked straight past it.

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