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RIVER
Definition of RIVER
noun
A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English ryver, from Anglo-Norman rivere, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria (“littoral, riverbank”), from Latin rīpārius (“of a riverbank”), from Latin rīpa (“river bank”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- (“to scratch, tear, cut”). Unrelated to Latin rīvus (“stream”) (whence rival, derive). Doublet of riviera and rivière. Largely displaced native English ea.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,843)
How it is built
Same root, RIVER · 1 relative in the game
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RIVER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
Built from these letters
RIVER starts with R and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EIRRV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start RIVER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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