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CLOSET
Definition of CLOSET
noun
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
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.
CLOSET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 103, 31 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
CLOSET starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CELOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CLOSET
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CLOSET?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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