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ARGENTOUS
Definition of ARGENTOUS
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or containing silver.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin argentosus.
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.
ARGENTOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 44, 3 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 81, 9 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 44, 3 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARGENTOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AEGNORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 ARGENT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 44
Could you have found ARGENTOUS?
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 44 - and most players walked straight past it.
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