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QUENAS
Definition of QUENAS
noun
plural of quena
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Word DNA
QUENAS inherits its ancestry from its root, QUENA.
Line of descent
- Spanish
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
11th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.5%
of traced words share this origin (431)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUENA · 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.
QUENAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUENAS starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AENQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found QUENAS?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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