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NABE

/neɪb/4 letters

Definition of NABE

noun

Neighborhood.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Clipping of neighborhood; compare hood. In attributive use, attested since 1922; in noun sense “neighborhood”, since 1942; in noun sense “neighborhood theater”, since 1933, originally in New York City.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

NABE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 5 boards so far.

Day 1Day 112
Its 5 boards, across 112 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
5
Boards found on
58
First board
109
Latest board
25
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.

First ever to find it

similitude

on Day 58, 17 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NABE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NABE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start NABE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NABE?

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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.

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