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EXORDIUM
Definition of EXORDIUM
noun
A beginning.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“to begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“to begin”).
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.
EXORDIUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 28 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 75, 3 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 75, 3 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EXORDIUM starts with E and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read DEIMORUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXORDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EXORDIUM?
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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