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COLANDERS
Definition of COLANDERS
noun
plural of colander
noun
A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.
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Word DNA
COLANDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, COLANDER.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, COLANDER · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
COLANDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 48, 7 July 2026.
Built from these letters
COLANDERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDELNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found COLANDERS?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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