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CANVAS
Definition of CANVAS
noun
A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp (traditionally) or from cotton and polyesters, useful for making sails, tents, and overcoats or as a surface for paintings.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
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.
CANVAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 21, 10 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CANVAS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACNSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CANVAS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found CANVAS?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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