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NEXT
Definition of NEXT
adjective
Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”). Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NEXT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 105, 2 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 18 days.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NEXT starts with N and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ENTX - 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.
Words that start NEXT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found NEXT?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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