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DEBUG
Definition of DEBUG
verb
To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From de- + bug.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DEBUG · 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.
DEBUG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 129, 26 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 129, 26 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEBUG starts with D and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BDEGU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DEBUG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DEBUG?
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 129 - and most players walked straight past it.
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