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SCRAN
Definition of SCRAN
noun
Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Probably of North Germanic origin, from or cognate with Old Norse skran (“rubbish; marine stores”). Compare Icelandic skran (“junk”), Danish skrammel (“junk, lumber”). Doublet of scrawn.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
16th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (209)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SCRAN · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SCRAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 99 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SCRAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACNRS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 SCRAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found SCRAN?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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