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NOTE
Definition of NOTE
noun
A symbol or annotation. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).
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.
NOTE in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 3, 24 May 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 103 days.
First found by a player on Day 3, 24 May 2026.
Built from these letters
NOTE starts with N and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ENOT - 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 NOTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 3
Could you have found NOTE?
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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