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CANISTEL
Definition of CANISTEL
noun
A tropical tree, Lucuma campechiana, from Central America and the Caribbean, that bears a sweet oval fruit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dialectal variant of Spanish canastillo (“small basket”), from Latin canistellum, diminutive of canistrum (“basket”).
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.
CANISTEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 77, 5 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 36, 25 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CANISTEL starts with C and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ACEILNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CANIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CANISTEL?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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