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VEIN
Definition of VEIN
noun
A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English veine, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).
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.
VEIN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 15, 4 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VEIN starts with V and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read EINV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 VEIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found VEIN?
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 15 - and most players walked straight past it.
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