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SHEEN
Definition of SHEEN
adjective
Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.
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.
SHEEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 21 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHEEN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EEHNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SHEEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
Could you have found SHEEN?
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 13 - and most players walked straight past it.
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