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LINEUP
Definition of LINEUP
noun
A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from line up.
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.
LINEUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 80, 8 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 113, 10 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 43 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LINEUP starts with L and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read EILNPU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start LINEUP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LINEUP?
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 80 - and most players walked straight past it.
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