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GUANO

/ˈɡwɑːnəʊ/5 letters

Definition of GUANO

noun

Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish guano, from Quechua wanu.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GUANO in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 224 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 46 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
46
Boards found on
20
First board
102
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

mattstan

on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GUANO
5
Letters
3
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

GUANO starts with G and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AGNOU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GUANO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

GUANOSGUANOSINEGUANOSINES

Could you have found GUANO?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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