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JOIN
Definition of JOIN
verb
To connect or combine into one; to put together.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English joinen, joynen, joignen, from Old French joindre, juindre, jungre, from Latin iungō (“join, yoke”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, unite”). Cognate with Old English iucian, iugian, ġeocian, ġyċċan (“to join; yoke”). More at yoke.
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.
JOIN in OUTLIER
It has fitted 17 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
JOIN starts with J and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read IJNO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start JOIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found JOIN?
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 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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