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TRAY
Definition of TRAY
noun
A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English trey, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.
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.
TRAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
TRAY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ARTY - 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 TRAY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found TRAY?
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