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CIMEX
Definition of CIMEX
noun
Any member of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the genus name Cimex, from Latin cīmex (“bug”). Doublet of chinch.
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.
CIMEX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
CIMEX starts with C and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read CEIMX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found CIMEX?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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