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MANTICORA
About MANTICORA
MANTICORA is a valid 9-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.
MANTICORA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 97, 25 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MANTICORA starts with M and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACIMNORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start MANTIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MANTICORA?
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 97 - and most players walked straight past it.
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