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QUINOA
Definition of QUINOA
noun
A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) native to the Andes and cultivated for its edible seeds.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish quinua, from Quechua kinwa.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
45th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (50)
branch · 0.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUINOA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUINOA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
QUINOA starts with Q and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AINOQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found QUINOA?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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