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EXCISE
Definition of EXCISE
noun
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
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Where it comes from
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).
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.
EXCISE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 104, 1 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
EXCISE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEEISX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXCISE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found EXCISE?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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