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SHINE
Definition of SHINE
verb
To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
4.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,919)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHINE · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHINE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHINS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SHINE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found SHINE?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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