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SUBORNERS

9 letters

Definition of SUBORNERS

noun

plural of suborner

SUBORNER

noun

One who suborns.

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Word DNA

SUBORNERS inherits its ancestry from its root, SUBORN.

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Indo-European
  2. Latin
  3. Middle French
  4. Anglo-Norman
  5. English

4 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Indo-European

Deepest traced root

2nd

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

14.2%

of traced words share this origin (11,595)

How it is built

nouncompoundsub-

Same root, SUBORN · 5 relatives in the game

Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
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.

SUBORNERS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its one board, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
140
First board
24
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 24 days.

First ever to find it

tqb

on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SUBORNERS
9
Letters
3
Vowels
6
Consonants
7
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SUBORNERS starts with S and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BENORRSSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S and R appear more than once.

Words that start SUBORN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

SUBORNSUBORNSSUBORNEDSUBORNERSUBORNINGSUBORNATIONSUBORNATIVESUBORNATIONS

Could you have found SUBORNERS?

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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.

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