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ATHROB
Definition of ATHROB
adjective
Throbbing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From a- + throb.
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.
ATHROB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 84, 12 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 39 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ATHROB starts with A and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read ABHORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found ATHROB?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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