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OBSCURANT
Definition of OBSCURANT
adjective
Acting or tending to confound, obfuscate, or obscure.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Entering English circa 1793–1799: From German Obskurant and French obscurant, from classical Latin obscūrant-, stem of obscūrāns, present participle of obscūrāre (“to obscure”), from obscūrus (“dark”).
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.
OBSCURANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OBSCURANT starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABCNORSTU - 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 OBSCUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found OBSCURANT?
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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