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WALNUT
Definition of WALNUT
noun
A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhahnuts (literally “foreigner-nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.
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.
WALNUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
WALNUT starts with W and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ALNTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start WALNUT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found WALNUT?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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