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ARENITE

7 letters

Definition of ARENITE

noun

Any sedimentary rock with a grain size in the sand range on the Wentworth scale.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Latin arēna (“sand”) + -ite

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Latin
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Latin

Deepest traced root

1st

of 58 source languages in OUTLIER

33.1%

of traced words share this origin (9,595)

Italic

branch · 33.1% of traced words

How it is built

nouncompound-ite

Same root, ARENITE · 1 relative in the game

Every Latin word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ARENITE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 4 boards so far.

Day 1Day 145
Its 4 boards, across 145 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards found on
94
First board
132
Latest board
26
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 94, 22 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First ever to find it

karol_teh_alien

on Day 94, 22 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ARENITE
7
Letters
4
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

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

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start ARENIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ARENITE?

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 94 - and most players walked straight past it.

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