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DOCUMENTARY
Definition of DOCUMENTARY
adjective
Of, related to, or based on documents.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French adjective and (hence) noun documentaire, from document, from Latin documentum. Equivalent to document + -ary.
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.
DOCUMENTARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 17 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 4, 25 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 87, 15 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 4, 25 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DOCUMENTARY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEMNORTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DOCUMEN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 4
Could you have found DOCUMENTARY?
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 4 - and most players walked straight past it.
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