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HAPTICS
Definition of HAPTICS
noun
The study of the sense of touch.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
HAPTICS carries 2 further meanings.
noun
In psychology and physiology, the science of touch: as optics is the science of sight and acoustics the science of hearing.
noun
The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
Where it comes from
From haptic.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HAPTIC · 1 relative in the game
HAPTICS in a sentence
“There are two aspects of writing; one is the visual aspect and the other is the perception and motor aspect, otherwise known as "haptics."”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HAPTICS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 53 boards so far. 158 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HAPTICS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACHIPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HAPTICS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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