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NICE
Definition of NICE
adjective
Pleasant, satisfactory, complimentary.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English nyce, nice, nys, from Old French nice, niche, nisce (“simple, foolish, ignorant”), from Latin nescius (“ignorant, not knowing”); compare nesciō (“to know not, be ignorant of”), from ne (“not”) + sciō (“to know”).
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.
NICE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 2 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
NICE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CEIN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start NICE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found NICE?
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 3 - and most players walked straight past it.
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