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TREY
Definition of TREY
noun
A playing card or die with the rank of three.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English trey, from Anglo-Norman trei or treis, from Old French treis (“three”). Doublet of three and tres.
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.
TREY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 48, 7 July 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
TREY starts with T and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ERTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start TREY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found TREY?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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