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ORANGE
Definition of ORANGE
noun
An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
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Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Doublet of aranzada. Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
7 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
15th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1%
of traced words share this origin (740)
branch · 1.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ORANGE · 11 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Malay.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ORANGE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 42 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 154, 21 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ORANGE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGNOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ORANGE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found ORANGE?
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