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AUBERGINES
Definition of AUBERGINES
noun
plural of aubergine
noun
An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
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Word DNA
AUBERGINES inherits its ancestry from its root, AUBERGINE.
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.8%
of traced words share this origin (254)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AUBERGINE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Hindi, Malay.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AUBERGINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 79 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
AUBERGINES starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABEEGINRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start AUBERG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found AUBERGINES?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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