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GARBANZO
Definition of GARBANZO
noun
An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.
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Where it comes from
From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GARBANZO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 73 days.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GARBANZO starts with G and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AABGNORZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start GARBAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
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