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ADORN
Definition of ADORN
verb
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ADORN · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Old French.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ADORN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 315 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ADORN starts with A and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ADORN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found ADORN?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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