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SYEN

4 letters

Definition of SYEN

noun

Obsolete spelling of scion.

SCION

noun

A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.

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Word DNA

How it is built

noun

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

SYEN in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 131
Its one board, across 131 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
130
First board
1
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First ever to find it

kwastl

on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

SYEN
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

SYEN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ENSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Same letters, different word

4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

Words that start SYEN

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found SYEN?

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 130 - and most players walked straight past it.

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