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NACHOS
Definition of NACHOS
noun
A Mexican dish of tortilla chips, covered in melted cheese and sometimes other ingredients.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish nachos, from Nacho. Nacho is a common diminutive form of Ignacio (“Ignatius”) in Spanish. The Mexican creator of the dish, Ignacio Anaya (1895–1975), named it after himself in 1943: Nacho's Especiales.
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.
NACHOS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 71, 30 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First found by a player on Day 34, 23 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NACHOS starts with N and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found NACHOS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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