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ARBOURS
Definition of ARBOURS
noun
plural of arbour
ARBOR · via arbour
noun
A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
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Word DNA
ARBOURS inherits its ancestry from its root, ARBOUR.
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ARBOUR · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ARBOURS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 26 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
ARBOURS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABORRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Could you have found ARBOURS?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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