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OBLIQUUS
About OBLIQUUS
OBLIQUUS is a valid 8-letter word in OUTLIER, and one of the few with no English entry in Wiktionary - the dictionary a word game accepts is wider than the one an encyclopaedia keeps.
No definition is on file, so none is guessed at here.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OBLIQUUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 52, 11 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 66, 25 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 108 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 52, 11 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OBLIQUUS starts with O and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BILOQSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once, including a double letter. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start OBLIQU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 52
Could you have found OBLIQUUS?
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 52 - and most players walked straight past it.
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