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HABANERO
Definition of HABANERO
noun
An intensely spicy chili pepper, Capsicum chinense.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish habanero.
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.
HABANERO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 94, 22 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HABANERO starts with H and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AABEHNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HABANE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HABANERO?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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