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DOURINES
Definition of DOURINES
Wiktionary has no entry for DOURINES itself. This is its base word, DOURINE.
noun
covering sickness
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for DOURINE.
From Arabic [Term?] (“mangy”), via French.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,144)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DOURINE · 1 relative 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.
DOURINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DOURINES starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEINORSU - 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.
Could you have found DOURINES?
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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