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ALBUMENS
Definition of ALBUMENS
noun
plural of albumen
noun
Synonym of egg white (“ the clear fluid part of an egg surrounding the yolk, being mostly the protein albumin and water, which turns stiff and white when beaten or cooked; the white of a particular egg”).
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Word DNA
ALBUMENS inherits its ancestry from its root, ALBUMEN.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
9%
of traced words share this origin (2,585)
How it is built
Same root, ALBUMEN · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ALBUMENS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 67 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ALBUMENS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABELMNSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ALBUME
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found ALBUMENS?
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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