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APHETIZING
About APHETIZING
APHETIZING is a valid 10-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
APHETIZING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 61 days.
First found by a player on Day 36, 25 June 2026.
Built from these letters
APHETIZING starts with A and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGHIINPTZ - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Z - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start APHETI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found APHETIZING?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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