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BANNOCKS
Definition of BANNOCKS
noun
plural of bannock
noun
An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
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Word DNA
BANNOCKS inherits its ancestry from its root, BANNOCK.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BANNOCK · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Irish, Scottish Gaelic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BANNOCKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BANNOCKS starts with B and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCKNNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found BANNOCKS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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