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GENA

4 letters

Definition of GENA

noun

The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). Doublet of chin.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GENA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
61
First board
112
Latest board
51
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.

First ever to find it

meatsandcheeses

on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GENA
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GENA starts with G and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEGN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start GENA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found GENA?

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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.

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