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DRISHEEN
Definition of DRISHEEN
noun
A type of Irish sausage made from pigs' blood, suet, and salt; an Irish version of black pudding.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Irish drisín.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Irish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
21st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.5%
of traced words share this origin (140)
branch · 0.8% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DRISHEEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
DRISHEEN starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read DEEHINRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
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 DRISHE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found DRISHEEN?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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