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CLAN
Definition of CLAN
noun
A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.
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.
CLAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 95, 23 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First found by a player on Day 95, 23 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CLAN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CLAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CLAN?
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 95 - and most players walked straight past it.
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