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BANCO
Definition of BANCO
adjective
Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From in banco, from Latin in banco.
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.
BANCO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BANCO starts with B and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ABCNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BANCO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 50
Could you have found BANCO?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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