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MAILBOX
Definition of MAILBOX
noun
A box into which mail is placed. A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From mail + box.
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.
MAILBOX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 114, 11 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 114, 11 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MAILBOX starts with M and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read ABILMOX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found MAILBOX?
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 114 - and most players walked straight past it.
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