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PANCETTA
Definition of PANCETTA
noun
A cured belly or pork; bacon.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian pancetta, from pancia (“belly”).
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 (1,395)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PANCETTA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PANCETTA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACENPTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and T appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start PANCET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PANCETTA?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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