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CONTANGO
Definition of CONTANGO
noun
The situation in a futures market where prices for future delivery are higher than prices for immediate (or nearer) delivery, indicating the expectation that the price of the underlying asset will go up.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The term originated in early-19th-century England, and is believed to be a corruption of continuation, continue or contingent. In the past on the London Stock Exchange, contango was a fee paid by a buyer to a seller when the buyer wished to defer settlement of the trade they had agreed. The charge was based on the interest forgone by the seller not being paid.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CONTANGO · 3 relatives 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.
CONTANGO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONTANGO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACGNNOOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and N appear more than once.
Words that start CONTAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTANGO?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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