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ACERBITY
Definition of ACERBITY
noun
Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French acerbité, from Latin acerbitās (“acerbity; harshness”), from acerbus (“bitter”). See acerb.
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.
ACERBITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACERBITY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ABCEIRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ACERBI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ACERBITY?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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