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CIGUATERA

9 letters

Definition of CIGUATERA

noun

A foodborne poisoning in humans caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with ciguatoxin.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish ciguatera.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

CIGUATERA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 108 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
101
First board
7
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.

First ever to find it

beeguy

on Day 101, 29 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

CIGUATERA
9
Letters
5
Vowels
4
Consonants
8
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

CIGUATERA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACEGIRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start CIGUAT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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