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CANKERY
Definition of CANKERY
adjective
Full of canker (plant disease); diseased and decaying.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From canker + -y.
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.
CANKERY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 67 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CANKERY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEKNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CANKER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found CANKERY?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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