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LEXICOGRAPHY
Definition of LEXICOGRAPHY
noun
The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
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Other senses
LEXICOGRAPHY carries 4 further meanings.
noun
The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
noun
The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.
noun
The act or process of making a dictionary.
noun
The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
“with so many words lexicography can be interesting in parts but at length is rather tedious labor”
Where it comes from
From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) + -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, LEXICOGRAPHY · 1 relative in the game
LEXICOGRAPHY in a sentence
“The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LEXICOGRAPHY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 203 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LEXICOGRAPHY starts with L and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACEGHILOPRXY - 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 mean much the same
Near-synonyms of LEXICOGRAPHY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start LEXICOGR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found LEXICOGRAPHY?
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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