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LIMIT

/ˈlɪm.ɪt/5 letters

Definition of LIMIT

noun

A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go or proceed.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Where it comes from

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from oblique stem of Latin līmes, līmit- (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

LIMIT in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 3 boards so far.

Day 1Day 123
Its 3 boards, across 123 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
3
Boards found on
47
First board
107
Latest board
49
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 47, 6 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.

First found by a player on Day 47, 6 July 2026.

Built from these letters

LIMIT
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

LIMIT starts with L and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read IILMT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.

Words that start LIMIT

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

LIMITSLIMITEDLIMITERLIMITESLIMITARYLIMITEDSLIMITERSLIMITINGLIMITABLELIMITEDLYLIMITINGSLIMITLESS

Could you have found LIMIT?

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 47 - and most players walked straight past it.

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