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NOON
Definition of NOON
noun
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
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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.
NOON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOON starts with N and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read NNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and O appear more than once, including a double letter. It reads the same backwards - a palindrome, and there are not many in the dictionary this game plays from.
Words that start NOON
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOON?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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