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NEIGH

/neɪ̯/5 letters

Definition of NEIGH

noun

The cry of a horse.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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

NEIGH in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 31 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 109
Its 18 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
18
Boards found on
26
First board
107
Latest board
34
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

batya

on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

NEIGH
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

NEIGH starts with N and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read EGHIN - 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 NEIGH

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NEIGH?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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