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NIGHTMARE
Definition of NIGHTMARE
noun
A very unpleasant or frightening dream.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English nyghtmare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night + mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”). Cognate with Scots nichtmare and nichtmeer, Dutch nachtmerrie, Middle Low German nachtmār, German Nachtmahr.
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.
NIGHTMARE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 32, 21 June 2026.
Built from these letters
NIGHTMARE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEGHIMNRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start NIGHTM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found NIGHTMARE?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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