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IMPORTANCY
Definition of IMPORTANCY
noun
Importance; significance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin importantia.
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.
IMPORTANCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First found by a player on Day 96.
Built from these letters
IMPORTANCY starts with I and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACIMNOPRTY - 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.
Words that start IMPORT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found IMPORTANCY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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