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NOTORIETY
Definition of NOTORIETY
noun
An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
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Where it comes from
Derived from Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin nōtōrietās, from nōtōrius, from nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”). By surface analysis, notorious + -ety.
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.
NOTORIETY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOTORIETY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EINOORTTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and T appear more than once.
Words that start NOTORI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found NOTORIETY?
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 106 - and most players walked straight past it.
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