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EXIMIOUS
Definition of EXIMIOUS
adjective
Pre-eminent, outstanding.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin eximius (“set apart, select”), from eximō (“take out or away; deliver, free”), from ex (“out of, from”) + emō (“buy; acquire, take”).
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.
EXIMIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EXIMIOUS starts with E and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EIIMOSUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found EXIMIOUS?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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