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INSPECT
Definition of INSPECT
verb
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin inspectum, past participle of inspicere (“to look into”), from in (“in”) + specere (“to look at”), equivalent to in- + -spect.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (23,981)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INSPECT · 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.
INSPECT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Also on
Built from these letters
INSPECT starts with I and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEINPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start INSPEC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found INSPECT?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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