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ARGOSY
Definition of ARGOSY
noun
A merchant ship.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.
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.
ARGOSY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 33 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 41, 30 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ARGOSY starts with A and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AGORSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found ARGOSY?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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