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LAND
Definition of LAND
noun
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LAND in OUTLIER
It has fitted 100 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
LAND starts with L and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADLN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start LAND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found LAND?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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