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CYMBALIST
Definition of CYMBALIST
noun
A musician who plays the cymbals.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From cymbal + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CYMBALIST · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CYMBALIST in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 90 days.
First found by a player on Day 41, 30 June 2026.
Built from these letters
CYMBALIST starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABCILMSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start CYMBAL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found CYMBALIST?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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