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ARBUTEAN

8 letters

Definition of ARBUTEAN

adjective

Made from arbute, the wood of the strawberry tree.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From arbute + -an.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

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Players have found it on 1 board so far.

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Boards found on
109
First board
11
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.

First ever to find it

mugley

on Day 109, 6 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARBUTEAN
8
Letters
4
Vowels
4
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

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

Words that start ARBUTE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 109 - and most players walked straight past it.

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