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MANE
Definition of MANE
noun
Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).
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.
MANE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 2, 23 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 2, 23 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MANE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMN - 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 MANE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 2
Could you have found MANE?
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 2 - and most players walked straight past it.
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