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OLEANDERS
Definition of OLEANDERS
noun
plural of oleander
noun
Nerium oleander, a notoriously poisonous shrub in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, but nonetheless widely grown as an ornamental, having leathery lance-shaped leaves and deep rose-colored or white flowers.
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Word DNA
OLEANDERS inherits its ancestry from its root, OLEANDER.
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, OLEANDER · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OLEANDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 45 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OLEANDERS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADEELNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start OLEAND
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found OLEANDERS?
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 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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