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IGUANA

/ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/6 letters

Definition of IGUANA

noun

A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

IGUANA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 28 boards so far. 57 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 28 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
28
Boards found on
25
First board
99
Latest board
16
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.

Built from these letters

IGUANA
6
Letters
4
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

IGUANA starts with I and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAGINU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start IGUANA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.

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