The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CANISTER
Definition of CANISTER
noun
A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,478)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CANISTER · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CANISTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CANISTER starts with C and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ACEINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CANIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found CANISTER?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER