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REGIONS
Definition of REGIONS
noun
plural of region
noun
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
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Word DNA
REGIONS inherits its ancestry from its root, REGION.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,330)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, REGION · 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.
REGIONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 134, 1 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
REGIONS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EGINORS - 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 REGION
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found REGIONS?
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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