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INFECT
Definition of INFECT
verb
To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, perfect passive participle of inficiō (“dye, taint”).
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.
INFECT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 52, 11 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 49 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 48, 7 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INFECT starts with I and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEFINT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start INFECT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found INFECT?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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