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SHORE
Definition of SHORE
noun
Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear. Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.
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 (3,861)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SHORE · 6 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, Norwegian.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHORE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 44 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SHORE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SHORE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found SHORE?
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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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