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CHOKEPOINT
Definition of CHOKEPOINT
noun
A point at which traffic or other movement can easily become blocked.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From choke + point.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHOKEPOINT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHOKEPOINT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEHIKNOOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found CHOKEPOINT?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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