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INGENUE
Definition of INGENUE
noun
An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,794)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INGENUE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INGENUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INGENUE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEGINNU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
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 INGENU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INGENUE?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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