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CUTWORM
Definition of CUTWORM
noun
The larva of any of the many moths of the family Noctuidae, considered an agricultural pest.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cut + worm, from the habit of eating through the stem of plants, or possibly from cutty (“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.
CUTWORM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
Built from these letters
CUTWORM starts with C and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read CMORTUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CUTWOR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CUTWORM?
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 102 - and most players walked straight past it.
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