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SANTERO
Definition of SANTERO
noun
A man who crafts santos (religious statues).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish santero.
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.
SANTERO in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SANTERO starts with S and ends with O. Sorted, its letters read AENORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SANTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SANTERO?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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