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ILIAD
About ILIAD
ILIAD is a valid 5-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
Word DNA
Same root, ILIAD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ILIAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 58 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
ILIAD starts with I and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADIIL - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found ILIAD?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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