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LUMMOX
Definition of LUMMOX
noun
A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unknown. First attested in 1825 in East Anglian slang. Perhaps from "dumb ox", influenced by lumbering; or from or cognate to dialectal verb lummock (“move about heavily or clumsily”), itself a word of uncertain origin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, LUMMOX · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LUMMOX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 161, 28 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 161, 28 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LUMMOX starts with L and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read LMMOUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. M appears more than once, including a double letter. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found LUMMOX?
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 161 - and most players walked straight past it.
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