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ADDAX
Definition of ADDAX
noun
A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French addax, from Arabic أبو عدس (ʔabū ʕadas, literally “father of the lentil”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
12th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.4%
of traced words share this origin (362)
branch · 2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ADDAX · 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.
ADDAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 131, 28 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 131, 28 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ADDAX starts with A and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read AADDX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and D appear more than once, including a double letter. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found ADDAX?
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 131 - and most players walked straight past it.
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