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ENNUI
Definition of ENNUI
noun
A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.
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.
ENNUI in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ENNUI starts with E and ends with I. Sorted, its letters read EINNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found ENNUI?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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