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ANEMONE
Definition of ANEMONE
noun
Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
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Where it comes from
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”). Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
18th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.6%
of traced words share this origin (169)
branch · 2% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANEMONE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 145, 12 October 2026.
Built from these letters
ANEMONE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEMNNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
Words that start ANEMON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANEMONE?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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