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ESQUITES
Definition of ESQUITES
noun
A Mexican snack or antojito made from white corn kernels that have been boiled and softened in water, which typically contains salt and epazote.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish esquites, plural of esquite (“toasted corn”), from Nahuatl īzquitl
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
39th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (127)
branch · 0.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ESQUITES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 29 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESQUITES starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEIQSSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and S appear more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
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 ESQUITES?
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 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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