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STEAN
Definition of STEAN
noun
A vessel made of clay or stone; a pot of stone or earth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English stene (“waterpot”), from Old English stǣna (“stone jug, a stean, a pot of stone or earth”) and Old English stǣne (“pitcher, jug”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainijā, from Proto-Germanic *stainijǭ (“stonen vessel, crucible”). Cognate with Old High German steinna (“pot, saucepan”). Doublet of stein.
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.
STEAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 100, 28 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STEAN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AENST - 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 STEAN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found STEAN?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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