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ZARIBA

6 letters

Definition of ZARIBA

noun

Alternative spelling of zeriba.

ZERIBA

noun

A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.

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Word DNA

ZARIBA inherits its ancestry from its root, ZERIBA.

Line of descent

  1. Arabic
  2. English

One recorded step before English.

Arabic

Deepest traced root

11th

of 59 source languages in OUTLIER

1.4%

of traced words share this origin (1,117)

Semitic

branch · 2.1% of traced words

How it is built

noun

Same root, ZERIBA · 9 relatives in the game

Every Arabic word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
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.

ZARIBA in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 164
Its 2 boards, across 164 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
107
First board
125
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 107, 4 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 125, 22 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.

First ever to find it

yhpezPATRON

on Day 107, 4 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ZARIBA
6
Letters
3
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ZARIBA starts with Z and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AABIRZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start ZARIBA

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ZARIBA?

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 107 - and most players walked straight past it.

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