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DECATHLON
Definition of DECATHLON
noun
An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From dec- + -athlon, coined for the 1912 Summer Olympics in analogy to the word pentathlon.
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.
DECATHLON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 38, 27 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DECATHLON starts with D and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDEHLNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DECATH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found DECATHLON?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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