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DEXTER

/ˈdɛks.tə/6 letters

Definition of DEXTER

adjective

Right; on the right-hand side.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin dexter (“right”).

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
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Revealed only in play
Tier
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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.

DEXTER in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 6 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 100
Its 6 boards, across 100 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
6
Boards found on
32
First board
99
Latest board
35
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.

Built from these letters

DEXTER
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

DEXTER starts with D and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read DEERTX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.

Words that start DEXTER

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

DEXTERSDEXTERITYDEXTEROUSDEXTERWISEDEXTERITIESDEXTEROUSLYDEXTEROUSNESSDEXTEROUSNESSES

Could you have found DEXTER?

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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.

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