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CURT
Definition of CURT
adjective
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
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.
CURT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 23 boards so far. 65 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 8, 29 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CURT starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CURT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found CURT?
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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