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ESCAPIST
Definition of ESCAPIST
adjective
Intended for or tending toward escape; especially, used to avoid, deny, or forget about reality, as through fantasy.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From escape + -ist.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ESCAPIST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESCAPIST starts with E and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEIPSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ESCAPI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ESCAPIST?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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