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DOUANIER
Definition of DOUANIER
noun
A French customs officer.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French douanier.
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.
DOUANIER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 83, 11 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOUANIER starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ADEINORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DOUANIER?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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