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PLAN

/plæn/4 letters

Definition of PLAN

noun

A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from French plan (“flat surface, ground plot, map”), from Latin plānus. Some sources also argue for influence or alteration of French plant, from plantar, from Latin plantāre (“set, fix in place”). Doublet of llano, piano, plane, and plain.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

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

PLAN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 7 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 7 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
7
Boards found on
8
First board
91
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.

First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.

Also on

Built from these letters

PLAN
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

PLAN starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ALNP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start PLAN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found PLAN?

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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.

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