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EMUNCTORY
Definition of EMUNCTORY
adjective
Pertaining to the elimination of waste from the body.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin ēmūnctus, past participle of ēmungō (“to blow one's nose”) + -ory.
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.
EMUNCTORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 117, 14 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 89, 17 August 2026.
Built from these letters
EMUNCTORY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read CEMNORTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start EMUNCT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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