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ECCE

/ˈɛksi/4 letters

Definition of ECCE

interjection

an interjection used to draw attention to something or someone; behold!

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin ecce.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

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

ECCE in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 2 boards so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its 2 boards, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
2
Boards found on
90
First board
118
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

tinatsu

on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

ECCE
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ECCE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CCEE - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and C appear more than once, including a double letter. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.

Words that start ECCE

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

ECCENTRICECCENTRICSECCENTRICALECCENTRICITYECCENTRICALLYECCENTRICITIES

Could you have found ECCE?

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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