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OCCUPANT
Definition of OCCUPANT
noun
A person who occupies an office or a position.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō). By surface analysis, occupy + -ant.
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.
OCCUPANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far. 244 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 111, 8 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OCCUPANT starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACCNOPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start OCCUPA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OCCUPANT?
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 111 - and most players walked straight past it.
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