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MINESTRONE
Definition of MINESTRONE
noun
Any of many thick Italian vegetable soups.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Directly from Italian minestrone, from minestra (“soup”, ultimately from Latin ministrō) + -one (augmentative suffix).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Italian
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
10th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.7%
of traced words share this origin (1,419)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MINESTRONE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MINESTRONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 167, 3 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MINESTRONE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEIMNNORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MINEST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MINESTRONE?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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