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NONOPERATIVE
Definition of NONOPERATIVE
adjective
Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From non- + operative.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
NONOPERATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NONOPERATIVE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEEINNOOPRTV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N, O and E appear more than once.
Words that start NONOPERA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NONOPERATIVE?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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