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ARBUTEAN
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).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ARBUTEAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
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
on Day 109, 6 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
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.
Could you have found ARBUTEAN?
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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