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CALAMANDERS
Definition of CALAMANDERS
noun
plural of calamander
noun
A wood from India and Sri Lanka, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a kind of ebony obtained from species of Diospyros, especially Diospyros quaesita, used to make furniture.
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Word DNA
CALAMANDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, CALAMANDER.
Line of descent
- Dutch
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (721)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CALAMANDER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CALAMANDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 148, 15 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 148, 15 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALAMANDERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AAACDELMNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CALAMAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CALAMANDERS?
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 148 - and most players walked straight past it.
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