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RESTRAIN
Definition of RESTRAIN
verb
To control or keep in check.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English restreinen, from Old French restreindre, from Latin rēstringere (“fasten, tighten”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,633)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, RESTRAIN · 3 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.
RESTRAIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
Built from these letters
RESTRAIN starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEINRRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RESTRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RESTRAIN?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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