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AUTONOMIC
Definition of AUTONOMIC
adjective
Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From autonomy + -ic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, AUTONOMIC · 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.
AUTONOMIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 11, 31 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUTONOMIC starts with A and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACIMNOOTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that start AUTONO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 11
Could you have found AUTONOMIC?
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 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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