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MOTORWAY
Definition of MOTORWAY
noun
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
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Where it comes from
From motor + way.
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.
MOTORWAY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 114, 11 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MOTORWAY starts with M and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AMOORTWY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found MOTORWAY?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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