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LIMITROPHE
Definition of LIMITROPHE
adjective
Border, frontier; being or existing along a border or frontier.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From French limitrophe, from Latin limitrophus.
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.
LIMITROPHE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 72, 31 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 30 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LIMITROPHE starts with L and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EHIILMOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found LIMITROPHE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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