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SALTIMBANCO
Definition of SALTIMBANCO
noun
A quack doctor, a fraud.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian saltimbanco. Used thus in English because of the association with street performers, seen by the settled population in English-speaking culture as not to be trusted. A more usual and more accurate English word, derived from similar sources, is mountebank.
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.
SALTIMBANCO in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 90 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SALTIMBANCO starts with S and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AABCILMNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SALTIMB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found SALTIMBANCO?
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 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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