The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ECTROPIUMS
Definition of ECTROPIUMS
noun
plural of ectropium
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ECTROPIUM · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ECTROPIUMS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 172, 8 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ECTROPIUMS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEIMOPRSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ECTROP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ECTROPIUMS?
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 172 - and most players walked straight past it.
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