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MESOKURTIC
Definition of MESOKURTIC
adjective
Of a distribution: having kurtosis equal to that of a normal distribution; equivalently, having zero excess kurtosis.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From meso- + kurtosis + -ic.
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.
MESOKURTIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 15 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 97, 25 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
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
MESOKURTIC starts with M and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEIKMORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found MESOKURTIC?
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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