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NOUVEAU

/nuːˈvəʊ/7 letters

Definition of NOUVEAU

adjective

New, fashionable.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

NOUVEAU in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 102
Its 16 boards, across 102 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
16
Boards found on
39
First board
101
Latest board
12
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 39, 28 June 2026.

Built from these letters

NOUVEAU
7
Letters
5
Vowels
2
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
3
Longest vowel run

NOUVEAU starts with N and ends with U. Sorted, its letters read AENOUUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.

Words that start NOUVEA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.

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