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LIGHTBOX
Definition of LIGHTBOX
noun
A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From light + box. In the Internet sense, originally the name of one specific technique.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LIGHTBOX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 144, 11 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LIGHTBOX starts with L and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read BGHILOTX - 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 LIGHTB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LIGHTBOX?
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 144 - and most players walked straight past it.
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