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BAIRN
Definition of BAIRN
noun
A child or baby.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,679)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, BAIRN · 3 relatives 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.
BAIRN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 140 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 151, 18 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BAIRN starts with B and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ABINR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 BAIRN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found BAIRN?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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