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ABRAY

5 letters

Definition of ABRAY

verb

Obsolete form of abraid.

ABRAID

verb

To wrench (something) out.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Back-formation from the preterite abraid, abrayde. More at abraid.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, ABRAID · 4 relatives in the game

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Rarity score
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Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ABRAY in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Its one board, across 176 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
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Boards found on
175
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 175, 11 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

yhpezPATRON

on Day 175, 11 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ABRAY
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ABRAY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AABRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that start ABRAY

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ABRAY?

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 175 - and most players walked straight past it.

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