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DOUR
Definition of DOUR
adjective
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Scots dour, possibly from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), via Middle Irish dúr. Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (137)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DOUR · 3 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DOUR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 85 boards so far. 301 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DOUR starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DORU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DOUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found DOUR?
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