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CANTICO
Definition of CANTICO
noun
A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From an south Eastern Algonquian language. Compare a Lenape gen'tke'n ("to sing, dance, etc.") as well as Powhatan kantokan (“dance”) and kantikanti (“dance and sing”).
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.
CANTICO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CANTICO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACCINOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CANTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CANTICO?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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