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ESCARPMENT
Definition of ESCARPMENT
noun
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French escarpement. By surface analysis, escarp + -ment.
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.
ESCARPMENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 37 boards so far. 171 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 25, 14 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESCARPMENT starts with E and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACEEMNPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start ESCARP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found ESCARPMENT?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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