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DURIAN
Definition of DURIAN
noun
Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Malay durian, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”). Doublet of iwi, from Māori.
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.
DURIAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 32 boards so far. 104 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DURIAN starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADINRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found DURIAN?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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