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NOVELTY
Definition of NOVELTY
noun
The state of being new or novel; newness.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus. By surface analysis, novel + -ty.
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.
NOVELTY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 30 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
NOVELTY starts with N and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ELNOTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found NOVELTY?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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