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INTRIGUE
Definition of INTRIGUE
noun
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem; the practice of engaging in hidden schemes.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“to entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.
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.
INTRIGUE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 25 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 29, 18 June 2026.
Built from these letters
INTRIGUE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGIINRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start INTRIG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found INTRIGUE?
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 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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