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MINESTRONES

11 letters

Definition of MINESTRONES

noun

plural of minestrone

MINESTRONE

noun

Any of many thick Italian vegetable soups.

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Word DNA

MINESTRONES inherits its ancestry from its root, MINESTRONE.

Line of descent

  1. Italian
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Italian

Deepest traced root

10th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.7%

of traced words share this origin (1,419)

Romance

branch · 12.8% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-one

Same root, MINESTRONE · 1 relative in the game

Its etymology also names Latin.

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

MINESTRONES in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 172
Its one board, across 172 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
172
First board
0
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First ever to find it

robin_notabird

on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

MINESTRONES
11
Letters
4
Vowels
7
Consonants
8
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

MINESTRONES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEIMNNORSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, E and S appear more than once.

Words that start MINESTR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found MINESTRONES?

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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.

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