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CONGEST
About CONGEST
CONGEST is a valid 7-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONGEST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 100, 28 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CONGEST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEGNOST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CONGES
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
Could you have found CONGEST?
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 30 - and most players walked straight past it.
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