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YEAREND
Definition of YEAREND
noun
The end of a year, especially a financial year.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Likely altered from year's end, from Middle English yeres ende, equivalent to year + end.
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.
YEAREND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
YEAREND starts with Y and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEENRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found YEAREND?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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