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LANE
Definition of LANE
noun
A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”). Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).
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.
LANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 63, 22 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
LANE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AELN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LANE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found LANE?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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