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DELIMIT

/dɪˈlɪmɪt/7 letters

Definition of DELIMIT

verb

To mark or fix the limits of.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“to mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“to limit, to bound”); see limit.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

DELIMIT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 101
Its 3 boards, across 101 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
54
First board
99
Latest board
38
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 54, 13 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 54, 13 July 2026.

Built from these letters

DELIMIT
7
Letters
3
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DELIMIT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEIILMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

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 DELIMI

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DELIMINGDELIMITSDELIMITEDDELIMITERDELIMITATEDELIMITERSDELIMITINGDELIMITATEDDELIMITATESDELIMITATIONDELIMITATIONS

Could you have found DELIMIT?

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 54 - and most players walked straight past it.

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