The rare daily word game. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
NEAR
NEAR is a genuine outlier — when it sat on the grid, almost no one found it.
Definition
adjective
Physically close.
Definition via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
NEAR in OUTLIER
It has appeared in 2 daily puzzles so far. Its rarest showing was OUTLIER — worth 100 points.
The word, broken down
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Distinct letters
NEAR starts with N and ends with R. Its letters in order are AENR — useful if you are hunting it on a scrambled grid.
Is NEAR a valid word?
Yes. NEAR is accepted in OUTLIER, the daily word game where every word is scored on how few players found it. The rarer the word, the higher it scores — and NEAR has been worth up to 100 points.