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ARTISTE
Definition of ARTISTE
noun
A public performer, especially of song or dance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French artiste. Doublet of artist.
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.
ARTISTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
ARTISTE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ARTIST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ARTISTE?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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