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ANXIOUS
Definition of ANXIOUS
adjective
Nervous and worried.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin anxius, from angō (“to cause pain, choke”); akin to Ancient Greek ἄγχω (ánkhō, “to choke”). See anger; angst.
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.
ANXIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 32 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANXIOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AINOSUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start ANXIOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANXIOUS?
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 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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