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ZINFANDEL
Definition of ZINFANDEL
noun
A dry red wine of California.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown origin; wine sense used from 1896, grape sense from 1880. Possibly a transmission of German Zierfandler, a different wine grape, through a Hungarian intermediary such as czirifandli (now Cirfandli).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
45th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.1%
of traced words share this origin (53)
branch · 0.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ZINFANDEL · 1 relative 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.
ZINFANDEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 145, 12 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ZINFANDEL starts with Z and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEFILNNZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found ZINFANDEL?
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 145 - and most players walked straight past it.
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