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CALAMARI
Definition of CALAMARI
noun
Squid as food, especially cooked in the form of calamari rings.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian calamari, plural of calamaro, from Latin calamarius, from calamus, from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Italian
- English
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.3%
of traced words share this origin (10,469)
branch · 12.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CALAMARI · 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.
CALAMARI 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 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 148, 15 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CALAMARI starts with C and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read AAACILMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CALAMA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CALAMARI?
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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