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BANYAN
Definition of BANYAN
noun
An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Portuguese baniano, from Arabic بَنِيَان (baniyān), from Gujarati વાણિયો (vāṇiyo, “merchant”), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from earlier वणिज् (vaṇíj, “merchant, trader”). The name appears to have been first bestowed popularly on a famous tree of this species growing near Bandar Abbas, under which the Bannians, or Hindu traders settled at that port, had built a little pagoda. Doublet of bunnia.
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.
BANYAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BANYAN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AABNNY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.
Words that start BANYAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BANYAN?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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