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RYND

4 letters

Definition of RYND

noun

A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English rynd, rynde, ryne, from Middle Dutch rijn, rine (“rynd”) or Middle Low German rîn, rîne (“rynd”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Middle Low German
  2. Middle Dutch
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Middle Low German

Deepest traced root

29th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

0.3%

of traced words share this origin (80)

Germanic

branch · 22.3% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, RYND · 1 relative in the game

Every Middle Low German word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

RYND in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 151
Its 35 boards, across 151 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
35
Boards found on
42
First board
149
Latest board
15
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

skimmed_milk

on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

RYND
4
Letters
0
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Different letters
4
Longest consonant run
0
Longest vowel run

RYND starts with R and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read DNRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start RYND

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found RYND?

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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.

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