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CHORIAMBUS
Definition of CHORIAMBUS
noun
A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus.
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Where it comes from
From Latin choriambus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to choreus + iambus.
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.
CHORIAMBUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 20 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHORIAMBUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCHIMORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CHORIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHORIAMBUS?
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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