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TERRAIN
Definition of TERRAIN
noun
A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).
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.
TERRAIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
TERRAIN starts with T and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEINRRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TERRAI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found TERRAIN?
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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