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ABORTUS
Definition of ABORTUS
noun
An abortion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from New Latin abortus (“miscarriage”). Doublet of abort.
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.
ABORTUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 115, 12 September 2026.
Built from these letters
ABORTUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ABORTU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ABORTUS?
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 115 - and most players walked straight past it.
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