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NORIA
Definition of NORIA
noun
A treadwheel with attached buckets, used to raise and deposit water.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Spanish noria, from Arabic نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), from Classical Syriac ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (nāʿōrtāʾ, “water wheel; growler”), from ܢܥܪ (nʿar, “to roar, growl, bray”).
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.
NORIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 81, 9 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 81, 9 August 2026.
Built from these letters
NORIA starts with N and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AINOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found NORIA?
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 81 - and most players walked straight past it.
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