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ABSIT
Definition of ABSIT
noun
Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin absit (“let (him or her) be absent”), the third-person singular present active subjunctive of absum (“be absent”).
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.
ABSIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABSIT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABIST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ABSIT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found ABSIT?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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