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NOVUM

5 letters

Definition of NOVUM

noun

A new feature, a novelty.

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin novum.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
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Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

NOVUM in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 9 boards so far.

Day 1Day 109
Its 9 boards, across 109 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
9
Boards found on
43
First board
107
Latest board
32
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.

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Built from these letters

NOVUM
5
Letters
2
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Different letters
1
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

NOVUM starts with N and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read MNOUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start NOVUM

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found NOVUM?

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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.

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