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DINE

/daɪn/4 letters

Definition of DINE

verb

To eat; to eat dinner or supper.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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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.

DINE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 10 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 10 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
10
Boards found on
29
First board
114
Latest board
30
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 35, 24 June 2026.

Built from these letters

DINE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DINE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read DEIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

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

Words that start DINE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found DINE?

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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.

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