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BACKLIGHTED

BACKLIGHTED is a super-rare catch. Only a sliver of players ever spotted it.

Definition

verb

simple past and past participle of backlight

Definition via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

The word, broken down

11
Letters
3
Vowels
8
Consonants
11
Distinct letters

BACKLIGHTED starts with B and ends with D. Its letters in order are ABCDEGHIKLT — useful if you are hunting it on a scrambled grid.

Is BACKLIGHTED a valid word?

Yes. BACKLIGHTED is accepted in OUTLIER, the daily word game where every word is scored on how few players found it. The rarer the word, the higher it scores — and BACKLIGHTED has been worth up to 95 points.

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