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CATERANS
Definition of CATERANS
noun
plural of cateran
CATERAN
noun
A Highlander working as a professional fighter; a mercenary attached to a Scottish clan.
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Word DNA
CATERANS inherits its ancestry from its root, CATERAN.
Line of descent
- Scottish Gaelic
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
39th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.2%
of traced words share this origin (123)
branch · 0.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CATERAN · 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.
CATERANS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 141, 8 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 141, 8 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CATERANS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACENRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CATERA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CATERANS?
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 141 - and most players walked straight past it.
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