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MODENAS
Definition of MODENAS
Wiktionary has no entry for MODENAS itself. This is its base word, MODENA.
noun
A crimson colour.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for MODENA.
From Modena in Italy.
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.
MODENAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
Built from these letters
MODENAS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEMNOS - 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.
Could you have found MODENAS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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