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ENTROPY
Definition of ENTROPY
noun
A measure of the disorder present in a system.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested in 1867, as the translation of German Entropie, coined in 1865 by Rudolph Clausius in analogy to Energie (“energy”), replacing the root of Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) by Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “transformation”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- German
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,605)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ENTROPY · 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.
ENTROPY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 60 boards so far. 355 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
ENTROPY starts with E and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ENOPRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start ENTROP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found ENTROPY?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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