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STRAWEN
Definition of STRAWEN
adjective
Made of straw.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English strawen (“made of straw”). Equivalent to straw + -en.
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.
STRAWEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 126, 23 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 126, 23 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STRAWEN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AENRSTW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found STRAWEN?
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 126 - and most players walked straight past it.
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