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SHWANPAN
Definition of SHWANPAN
noun
Dated form of suanpan.
SUANPAN
noun
A Chinese abacus with two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads on each rod in the bottom deck.
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Word DNA
SHWANPAN inherits its ancestry from its root, SUANPAN.
Line of descent
- Mandarin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
41st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (84)
branch · 0.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, SUANPAN · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHWANPAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First found by a player on Day 132, 29 September 2026.
Built from these letters
SHWANPAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AAHNNPSW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and N appear more than once.
Words that start SHWANP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHWANPAN?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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