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NIGHTLIKE
Definition of NIGHTLIKE
adjective
Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
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Where it comes from
From night + -like.
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.
NIGHTLIKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 73, 1 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 95, 23 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 73, 1 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NIGHTLIKE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EGHIIKLNT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start NIGHTL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NIGHTLIKE?
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 73 - and most players walked straight past it.
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