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CURTALAX
About CURTALAX
CURTALAX is a valid 8-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.
CURTALAX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 73, 1 August 2026.
Built from these letters
CURTALAX starts with C and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read AACLRTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start CURTAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CURTALAX?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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