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YEAR

YEAR is a genuine outlier — when it sat on the grid, almost no one found it.

Definition

noun

A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.

Definition via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

The word, broken down

4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Distinct letters

YEAR starts with Y and ends with R. Its letters in order are AERY — useful if you are hunting it on a scrambled grid.

Is YEAR a valid word?

Yes. YEAR is accepted in OUTLIER, the daily word game where every word is scored on how few players found it. The rarer the word, the higher it scores — and YEAR has been worth up to 100 points.

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