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VEENA
Definition of VEENA
noun
A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hindi and Sanskrit वीणा (vīṇā), which is related to Middle Persian wn' (win, “veena, lute”).
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.
VEENA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
VEENA starts with V and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEENV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E 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 VEENA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found VEENA?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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