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CORANTO
Definition of CORANTO
noun
Any of a family of old French dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the French dance the courante, loosely translatable as the "running".
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,141)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CORANTO · 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.
CORANTO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CORANTO starts with C and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read ACNOORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O 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.
Could you have found CORANTO?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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