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MACHINES
About MACHINES
MACHINES is a valid 8-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MACHINES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
MACHINES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHIMNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MACHIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MACHINES?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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