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KLAXON
Definition of KLAXON
noun
A loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th century.
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Where it comes from
From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).
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.
KLAXON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 171 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
KLAXON starts with K and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AKLNOX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start KLAXON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found KLAXON?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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