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CATECHU
Definition of CATECHU
noun
A gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae, but especially Senegalia catechu, produced by boiling the wood of the tree in water and evaporating the resulting liquid.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably a corruption of the Malay kacu.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Malay
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
28th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.3%
of traced words share this origin (96)
branch · 0.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CATECHU · 1 relative 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.
CATECHU in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CATECHU starts with C and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read ACCEHTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once.
Words that start CATECH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CATECHU?
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 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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