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REAN
Definition of REAN
noun
A deep furrow used for drainage.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English rene, rein (“strip of land forming a boundary; furrow; barrier; embankment”), from Old Norse rein (“a strip of land”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō (“baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”). Related to Icelandic rein, Danish ren, Dutch rein, reen (“berm”), German Rain (“narrow strip of land between two fields”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
REAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
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
REAN starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AENR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start REAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found REAN?
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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