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WAXEN
Definition of WAXEN
adjective
Grown.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
WAXEN carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Made of or covered with wax.
adjective
Pale or smooth as wax.
“waxen skin.”
adjective
Weak, pliable, or impressionable.
“waxen minds.”
Made of wax; covered with wax: as, a waxen tablet.
Where it comes from
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, ġeweaxen, from Proto-Germanic *wahsanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to wax, grow, increase”), equivalent to wax + -en (past participle ending).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (980)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WAXEN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 442 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WAXEN starts with W and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AENWX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found WAXEN?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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