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CANEPHORAS

10 letters

Definition of CANEPHORAS

noun

plural of canephora

CANEPHORA

noun

A caryatid supporting a basket on her head.

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Word DNA

CANEPHORAS inherits its ancestry from its root, CANEPHORA.

Line of descent

  1. Ancient Greek
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Ancient Greek

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

12.5%

of traced words share this origin (3,443)

Hellenic

branch · 12.5% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, CANEPHORA · 1 relative in the game

Every Ancient Greek word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CANEPHORAS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 137
Its one board, across 137 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
134
First board
3
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

enantiomeric

on Day 134, 1 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CANEPHORAS
10
Letters
4
Vowels
6
Consonants
9
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

CANEPHORAS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACEHNOPRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CANEPH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 134 - and most players walked straight past it.

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