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INCEPT

6 letters

Definition of INCEPT

verb

To take in or ingest.

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Word DNA

How it is built

verb

Same root, INCEPT · 2 relatives in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

INCEPT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 40 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 141
Its 25 boards, across 141 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
25
Boards found on
20
First board
136
Latest board
28
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.

First ever to find it

epimetheon

on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

INCEPT
6
Letters
2
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

INCEPT starts with I and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEINPT - 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.

PECTINPEINCT

Words that start INCEPT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found INCEPT?

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 20 - and most players walked straight past it.

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