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ARGONAUT
Definition of ARGONAUT
noun
Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
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Where it comes from
Generalised use of Argonaut.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ARGONAUT · 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.
ARGONAUT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 16, 5 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 16, 5 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ARGONAUT starts with A and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AAGNORTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start ARGONA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 16
Could you have found ARGONAUT?
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 16 - and most players walked straight past it.
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