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RETINAS
About RETINAS
RETINAS is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RETINAS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 85, 13 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 26, 15 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
RETINAS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEINRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
10 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start RETINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found RETINAS?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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