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ABSTERGENT
Definition of ABSTERGENT
adjective
Cleansing, detergent.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French, from Latin abstergens, present participle of abstergeo (“wiping off”).
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.
ABSTERGENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ABSTERGENT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABEEGNRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Words that start ABSTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ABSTERGENT?
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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