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DOLT
Definition of DOLT
noun
A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.
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.
DOLT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
DOLT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DLOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 DOLT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found DOLT?
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 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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