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SARAN
Definition of SARAN
noun
A plastic resin used to make packaging films.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a trade name coined by the Dow Chemical Co. for a number of monomers and polymers made from vinylidene chloride (especially polyvinylidene chloride).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SARAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SARAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AANRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
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 SARAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found SARAN?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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