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SULTANA
Definition of SULTANA
noun
A pale yellow raisin made from a seedless grape.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness. Doublet of sultan and soldan.
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.
SULTANA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SULTANA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AALNSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SULTAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found SULTANA?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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