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YOUR

/jɔː(ɹ)/4 letters

Definition of YOUR

determiner

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

Line of descent

  1. Proto-Germanic
  2. Old English
  3. Middle English
  4. English

3 recorded generations before English.

Proto-Germanic

Deepest traced root

6th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

4.8%

of traced words share this origin (4,101)

Germanic

branch · 22.6% of traced words

How it is built

determiner1 syllable

Same root, YOUR · 2 relatives in the game

Its etymology also names Danish, Dutch.

Every Proto-Germanic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

YOUR in OUTLIER

It has fitted 4 boards so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 178
Its 4 boards, across 178 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
4
Boards it fitted
120
First board
172
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.

First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.

Built from these letters

YOUR
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
2
Longest vowel run

YOUR starts with Y and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ORUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start YOUR

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found YOUR?

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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.

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