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CANARY
Definition of CANARY
noun
A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
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.
CANARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CANARY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CANARY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found CANARY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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