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PLAN
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).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,176)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PLAN · 7 relatives 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.
PLAN in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 13 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 127, 24 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
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 127 - and most players walked straight past it.
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