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GROUNDNUTS
Definition of GROUNDNUTS
noun
plural of groundnut
GROUNDNUT
noun
A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
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Word DNA
GROUNDNUTS inherits its ancestry from its root, GROUNDNUT.
How it is built
Same root, GROUNDNUT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German, Hungarian, Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GROUNDNUTS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 166, 2 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GROUNDNUTS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DGNNORSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U and N appear more than once.
Words that start GROUND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found GROUNDNUTS?
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 166 - and most players walked straight past it.
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