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ATELIC
Definition of ATELIC
adjective
Presenting an action or event’s significance as being the process or experience instead of the end accomplishment or goal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a- + telic.
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.
ATELIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 12 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 39, 28 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 115, 12 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ATELIC starts with A and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACEILT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ATELIC?
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 39 - and most players walked straight past it.
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