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EXEC

4 letters

Definition of EXEC

noun

An executive; a person employed at the executive level.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

Clipping of executive or execute.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

EXEC in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 111
Its 3 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
75
First board
98
Latest board
22
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 75, 3 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.

First found by a player on Day 75, 3 August 2026.

Built from these letters

EXEC
4
Letters
2
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

EXEC starts with E and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEEX - 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 EXEC

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

EXECSEXECUTEEXECRATEEXECUTEDEXECUTEREXECUTESEXECUTOREXECUTRYEXECRABLEEXECRABLYEXECRATEDEXECRATES

Could you have found EXEC?

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 75 - and most players walked straight past it.

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