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SHOWN

/ʃəʊn/5 letters

Definition of SHOWN

verb

past participle of show

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Where it comes from

From Middle English schauen, schewen (past participle), alternative form of schawid, schewed, past participle of Middle English schewen (“to show”). Morphologically equivalent to show + -n.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

SHOWN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 18 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 114
Its 14 boards, across 114 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
14
Boards found on
28
First board
114
Latest board
31
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.

First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.

Built from these letters

SHOWN
5
Letters
1
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SHOWN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read HNOSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Could you have found SHOWN?

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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.

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