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CANE
Definition of CANE
noun
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof: The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
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.
CANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 16 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CANE starts with C and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACEN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CANE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CANE?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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