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CANCAN
Definition of CANCAN
noun
A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France. "Galop Infernal", a movement from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with and called the cancan.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French cancan.
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.
CANCAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
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
CANCAN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AACCNN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C, A and N appear more than once.
Words that start CANCAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CANCAN?
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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