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ESTRAGON
Definition of ESTRAGON
noun
Synonym of tarragon
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French estragon. Doublet of tarragon.
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.
ESTRAGON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 99, 27 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 99, 27 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ESTRAGON starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEGNORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ESTRAG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ESTRAGON?
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 99 - and most players walked straight past it.
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