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DACTYLUS
Definition of DACTYLUS
noun
Synonym of dactyl (“type of metrical foot”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Latin dactylus. Doublet of dactyl and date.
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.
DACTYLUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 40, 29 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 93, 21 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 9 days.
First found by a player on Day 40, 29 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DACTYLUS starts with D and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDLSTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DACTYL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 40
Could you have found DACTYLUS?
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 40 - and most players walked straight past it.
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