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WINER
Definition of WINER
noun
A person who habitually drinks wine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From wine + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, WINE · 11 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WINER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
WINER starts with W and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EINRW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start WINER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found WINER?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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