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DIDACTIC
Definition of DIDACTIC
adjective
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
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Where it comes from
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.
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.
DIDACTIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 77 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DIDACTIC starts with D and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read ACCDDIIT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. D, I and C appear more than once.
Words that start DIDACT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DIDACTIC?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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