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SUNRAY
Definition of SUNRAY
noun
A beam of sunlight; a sunbeam.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sun + ray.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SUNRAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 87, 15 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 87, 15 August 2026.
Built from these letters
SUNRAY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ANRSUY - 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.
Words that start SUNRAY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SUNRAY?
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 87 - and most players walked straight past it.
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