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EXTRANEOUS
Definition of EXTRANEOUS
adjective
Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin extrāneus (“from without, strange”). Doublet of strange. Cognate with estrange (verb), Spanish extraño.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names 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.
EXTRANEOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 290 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EXTRANEOUS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEENORSTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXTRAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found EXTRANEOUS?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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